The heatwave

We are blue skies no cloud.
That's going to make it feel hotter anyway.
We have had threads before about the weather. It's something we focus on.
 
I bought myself a cooling mat, oh my days what a game changer. When I get back from the yard and I’ve boiled in the heat I just sit on that for 20 minutes and it literally sucks the heat out of you. It helps to have my cooling fan on too and Mr KR just bought me a neck fan to wear when I go to the yard. Looks ridiculous but if it helps my rosecea I don’t care.
 
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When I am hot, I dip a muslin square into the cold water troughs, wring it out and keep it around my neck.

Also a hotwater bottle filled with cold water and then frozen (get the air out and don't over fill) is a wonderful friend.

Putting your feet in a paddling pool!
 
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Frances144 said:
When I am hot, I dip a muslin square into the cold water troughs, wring it out and keep it around my neck.

Also a hotwater bottle filled with cold water and then frozen (get the air out and don't over fill) is a wonderful friend.

Putting your feet in a paddling pool!
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Every year I say I’m going to buy a paddling pool to sit in when the weather warms up, then I forget all about it until we get really hot weather, by which point there’s no paddling pools to be had for love or money. To be honest our garden faces south and unless I buy a parasol as well it would be far too hot to sit out in even with a paddling pool.
I have been known to soak myself down (clothes an all) with the hosepipe at the yard before I set off round our track to poo pick. That’s quite refreshing, although when we hit 40 a couple of weeks ago I was dry again in about five minutes so it hardly seemed worth it.
I never even thought about a ‘cold water bottle’ thank you, will come in handy for the winter too when we can’t afford to put the heating on. Back to the good old days.
 
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Kite_Rider said:
Every year I say I’m going to buy a paddling pool to sit in when the weather warms up, then I forget all about it until we get really hot weather, by which point there’s no paddling pools to be had for love or money. To be honest our garden faces south and unless I buy a parasol as well it would be far too hot to sit out in even with a paddling pool.
I have been known to soak myself down (clothes an all) with the hosepipe at the yard before I set off round our track to poo pick. That’s quite refreshing, although when we hit 40 a couple of weeks ago I was dry again in about five minutes so it hardly seemed worth it.
I never even thought about a ‘cold water bottle’ thank you, will come in handy for the winter too when we can’t afford to put the heating on. Back to the good old days.
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We've got a paddling pool but we're not allowed to fill it!
 
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When we lived south I used to get so hot I longed for a paddling pool! lol I used to sit on the yard outside our caravan with my feet in a bucket of cold water. That worked quite nicely until they swelled up again like sausages lol
I don't miss that heat at all. It's just a distant memory now...............................and I'm glad! lol
 
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Kite_Rider said:
Every year I say I’m going to buy a paddling pool to sit in when the weather warms up, then I forget all about it until we get really hot weather, by which point there’s no paddling pools to be had for love or money. To be honest our garden faces south and unless I buy a parasol as well it would be far too hot to sit out in even with a paddling pool.
I have been known to soak myself down (clothes an all) with the hosepipe at the yard before I set off round our track to poo pick. That’s quite refreshing, although when we hit 40 a couple of weeks ago I was dry again in about five minutes so it hardly seemed worth it.
I never even thought about a ‘cold water bottle’ thank you, will come in handy for the winter too when we can’t afford to put the heating on. Back to the good old days.
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I would put my feet in a washing-up bowl. I only had the p/pool because I had a toddler around.
 
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Yeah and look just to the left and the ground is puddling. We might have to come and collect some.
🤞we get some of the rain they are forecasting. Probably go round us in drought and hose pipe ban.
 
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