The HEAT

I envy anyone getting rain. We've not had a drop for weeks. Nothing yesterday or today depite thunderstorm warnings.

I currently have a week working from my folks spare room. It's rather pleasant in the sticks but I'm not looking forward returning to the big smoke

Why does the media still always present possible hot weather as a good thing? I'm sure I'm not the only person who has been very relieved by a not too hot July & whose heart sinks at the prospect of hotter weather in the next couple of weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/66508760

I think people have forgotten that the UK being where it is, gets varied weather patterns throughout the year. The summers are no continuously anything, but characterised by hot days, weeks and then rainy, chilly ones and the winters can be very cold or just cold or sometimes bright and almost not cold. It’s not like so much of the rest of the world where temps stay the same for each season. I honestly think people don’t understand that. ( she ducks behind the sofa )

The weather forecast for the next week makes me want to scream. It's hotter than July & August.

But great on the gas bill 👌

It's always like this just as schools go back - the weather is always better in the first couple of school weeks than it is across the whole of the summer holiday.

Yep, I'm always keener on early September weddings than June ones (despite what the girls in SBFSB say). They tend to have nicer weather in my experience.

A couple of months ago, I bought one of those geeky-looking neck fans anticipating a hot summer but was luckily away from the UK during the last heat wave. I've been using it the last couple of days and I have to say, it works great! I was a little concerned it would give me a stiff neck, but so far it hasn't. I'll have the chance to check next week if it's loud for others (and myself) when sitting in the theater, but if not, it will be a god-send!

What I hate is that the heatwave comes along just as you’re adjusted to it being 20 degrees - it’s not the absolute heat level that is the problem (I was out and about in 30-odd degree heat on Greece!) it’s the fact that it has jumped 8 degrees in a matter of days!

That and the fact that my first floor flat just seems to *collect* the heat. It builds up over a few days.

And it's going to jump down just as quickly starting on Monday. (Thank goodness!)

We've had such an appalling summer in the NW - rain, cold, heating on, wettest July on record, everything mildewy and mouldy - I'm actually enjoying this (mostly): the hazy light is very 70s nostalgic and I'm getting on with some very belated Spring cleaning.