How would you describe how you are feeling in this hot weather?

Don’t wish your life away ?

Sorry but I can’t help it OldMeg I just hate my life as it is right now and can’t see an end to it.

Nothing seems to go right.

DH and I are visiting family and are sitting outside in California in the shade, in 95°. This is a dry heat - so much better than the UK's humidity. (I remember 1976 when I working.) It's the humidity that lays me low. I'm betting the UK heat will disappear just as we land back home in the NW next week....

I love it, to wake up to a clear blue sky is wonderful.

But to be honest mostly I’m feeling Clean!
I’m having about 4 showers a day because I’m getting ( as a friends daughter used to say) Sweaty Wet.
I’ve never had so many showers. But would I change it? Nope.

gillybob I’m so sorry that you are feeling so down, if you want to unloadthen please PM me, I might not be able to help, but I can listen.

How horrible for you gillybob. I hope a miracle happens and things improve for you soon.

gilly

For you gillybob - and
Are you still enjoying the football?

Your not the only one gillybob XX I feel like I'm in a prison too. I can't sit out because DH has decided to clean out our three sheds and cellar so there are dozens of boxes on our patio at the moment covered with tarpaulin and because he has mobility problems he can only do bits at a time. I can't help because he knows where he wants everything and I just get in the way. The patio furniture is outside our kitchen door right next to the neighbors fence so every time I sit there their dog starts growling and barking. It's July and we haven't even been out for the day yet (unless you count Tesco's) I feel like everyone else is having so much fun and I'm stuck in the house missing it all!

Up until yesterday have felt like a limp lettuce. Gave up ‘putting’ my eyebrows on as they kept melting. Had 2 of our grandsons for the weekend (6 & 3) who enjoyed the paddling poot as the 3 year old calls it! I supervised while grandad watched the football, “this is history being made, I won’t see this in my lifetime again”. Cooler today, anything over 25 degrees and I suffer. Still we mustn’t complain it will be Autumn before we know it!

I'm glad it's cooled down where we are in the south east. We had Scottish friends staying with us all last week, whenever they come down in the summertime it has always been red hot, they find it a novelty, especially as we were able to sit out side and eat most nights. We did a fair bit of traipsing around local sites, Hampton Court, Kew, I don't really enjoy it that much in such heat, I did once, but now I find my feet always swell up, I just feel sweaty and uncomfortable when it's so hot. However, happily my feet are back to normal now, I do love the though mid twenties will do for me.

Absolute bliss for me. Energised beyond belief. Daily domestics (always minimal) done in no time and regular bed stripping and washing a joy rather that a chore. Getting out and about without having to tote a bag of 'just in case' extras. Can't remember when the garden last looked so good. Lots of meet-ups with friends for long lazy lunches. My life doesn't get much better than this. Thank you God.

I don’t leave the house and this heat has stopped my recovery programme. Longing for rain.

I go away every winter for 3 or 4 months to SE Asia, as I feel better and in no pain in the heat so I am loving this heat at the moment. You have to adjust, smaller, lighter meals or eating just every no and again when hungry. Slower pace and cotton clothing with a nap every afternoon about 2. Love it.

I hate the heatwave - by the time I get as far as lunch I'm already feeling drained and dessicated and there's still half a day to go................

Melting. It's too hot to do more then the minimum required. What little housework I do gets done early before it heats up. Then I sit about reading a bit, pottering etc, not too much of the etc.

1974cookie. All i can conjure up now is a picture of soft teacakes. With butter and jam. Which is not good as I am dieting. But i have just been out for a walk to supplement the diet. I am now returned looking and feeling like a wet dishrag. Thinking about quick shower. But am planning to do some work in the garden, which has been neglected due to heat. But then I would need another shower after that. And we should be saving water. So can't win. So think I'll have a cuppa first, sadly without the teacakes, and then make a decision about the rest of my day. Lovely to be retired though, as my day is mine to do as I want.

Love it.
However as we are currently in Rhodes & it is very hot indeed I wish it was raining in UK for my poor garden & saved the sun for when we get back.
I could lie in sun all day- & frequently do!

I now have ripe blackberries in the garden, and a shrub absolutely covered in red berries that do not usually appear until the autumn !
I am constantly putting out water for the birds, 3x a day at the moment as they are getting through it at a rate of knots, poor little guys.
PLEASE let it rain for a short while. I dream of a nice steady rainfall overnight and to be able to experience that truly gorgeous smell of wet earth.

I’m just languishing on a chair having just had a very large G+T in a big glass with poppies on it that my DD bought me for my birthday (mostly tonic) and feeling soporific.
DH is doing the salad but I’m not sure I can even be bothered to eat that.
Sounds wonderful but I could do with being a tad cooler.

I think the word is liberated. No coats, hats, umbrellas. Able to eat al fresco and no uncertainty of the weather of the day.

I do, however, appreciated that not everyone likes it.

Does a lot depend on one’s day to day living?

I don’t want to barbecue on my own, or eat out in the garden, I plate for one looks sad but I am use to it indoors.

Can’t get out to shop, a visitor one day a week, no one to discuss weather, news , family with .

Not self pity just thinking about posts with talk of holidays, annoying husbands ? etc.

Hot?

Gilly, it will get better my love x