The HEAT

I have an air-conditioned office and unlimited access to my local air-conditioned cinema, so I'm surviving on a day-to-day basis, but it's a lot harder to keep the temperature in my house down, so I'm not sleeping well and am angry all the time. On the plus side, all the water I've been drinking simply to keep myself from passing out means my skin has never been so clear! I do so long for the return of the rain though. I hope everyone is keeping themselves safe and hydrated.

Not to rub it in but it is a nice coolish temperature here in Belfast today and there's even the odd bit of rain which I am actually glad to see! London is 10 degrees higher than here but I'm happy enough.

The worst bit for me I'd commuting in London. Most tube lines are horrific especially the central line which is the one I live on. I get home in the evening absolutely drained of energy.
Off to the NT tonight and dreading it to be honest. As I have a 10 minute walk from the office then a bus then a train then another 10 minute walk home. Then after I've cooled down at home a 10 minute walk to the tube. 2 trains and a walk to the NT. The play had better be good that's all I can say.
We don't cope well in this country with the heat especially in built up cities. But I suppose it's better than a summer of miserable weather and rain.

I'd take the miserable weather & rain any day!!

I've just cancelled my midweek London trip - I'm ill too so King Lear will have to wait (given my Othello tickets to London friends who say they're going to brave it!). It's not bad here in the North-West at the mo, and it actually rained for about half an hour this morning, though we had it unusually hot earlier in the month when the south was cooler. We've had hardly any rain for months - lots of dead trees, especially birches. The municipal bedding and roadside stuff has been dead for a while now.

I went to a college reunion a couple of weeks ago - it was 30/31 degrees and we were housed in a new part of the college, all glass and steel, and it was like an oven. Ironically, they're about to demolish a 1950s stone building in the college and replace it with yet more glass and steel. Even if these are air conditioned (and that system doesn't break down!), the glare these currently fashionable buildings produce must be increasing air temperatures - there's one in London that melts cars.

Sorry, that might be my fault - I'm flying up to Manchester Thursday evening. Must be bringing the weather with me. 


My hotel is not air conditioned, because obviously when I was planning my trip it was freezing and I scoffed at the very idea of a heatwave..

We should all combine forces and develop an air con business!

Oh I win.

Much of the last 6 weeks of term were spent with sixty two 11 year olds in a school hall.  The rest of the school is built around the hall, so there are no external doors or windows.

One of the rooms off the hall is the kitchen.


Oh, and the hall roof is made of glass.


The remaining time not in the hall I spent in the overcrowded classroom (built to house 20, not 32) where those 11 year olds totally refused to take off their brand new fleecy hoodies, which advertised the fact they were about to say goodbye to our establishment for ever.

I am officially a blob (albeit a blob now on holiday...go on...have a dig....)

And I LOVE IT!! Stop yer mooooning. It's luverly!

The "Hall of Fame" at the Palladium is kept incredibly cool. When I'm at work i've been spending as much time in there as possible!

I honestly love this weather, I'm someone who's usually complaining that it's cold though so that may be why. I just wish I wasn't so pale and pasty so I could actually sit out in it for longer and truly make the most of it. The sun and just the generic heat have cleared the eczema on my legs (not completely but enough that I'm no longer super self conscious of it) which usually only happens if I go abroad so I'm definitely winning there. Judging by this thread I seem to be rather lucky, my asthma has actually improved, I only suffer with it badly if I'm really cold.
Yes it's muggy some days but I don't seem to be as affected as the rest of my family. It hasn't stopped me sleeping which is the main thing, equally it's not stopped my theatre trips. I must admit I've avoided the tube though, I feel that would probably be too much. I've taken to getting a slightly earlier train into Paddington and then walking to whichever theatre I'm attending.

I’m in Spain still and it’s generally been hotter than the UK. The heat here though is much easier to cope with. I don’t find myself sweating half as much as when I’m the UK.

Can totally relate to this. My class wouldn’t take off their leavers hoodies either no matter how hot it got. I nearly had a mutiny when I made them remove them for our end of term mile race!