General Chat

I hope you're freezer is ok and it was just the heat that was making the alarm go off.

It cooled right down this evening as it clouded over. I went up and got F & C for sinner so no cooking for me.

My washing I put on he line this morning was dry 20mins later when the next lot went out! I hope its not too dry to iron as most of it is my cotton shirts. I have to wear something on my arms or I come up in spots and I don't like wearing sun tan lotion s it makes me feel closed in. I have strange skin..........bit like the rest of me really.

Jane thats what I meant for you to put your stockened feet iin the pool they would be nice and cool then.

Going to watch the rest of Escape to the Chateau now.

Hope your eyes clear overnight Frank nite nite.

Vera it was 33 here and not pleasant there was a breeze which caused problems with opening windows as it blew everything around.
Freezer seems to be ok we will leave the stuff in next doors over night. It is mainly meat and fish

Just to let you know I am alright. BUT still can't see very well. I have been sitting all day with my eyes closed. I will be O.K tomorrow (I hope) so will catchup then. Good night God bless you all. xxxx

No storms here yet but I wish the weather would break as I am really struggling now. Our kitchen temperature is now showing 34 and that’s by no means the hottest room in the house. Should be a bit cooler tomorrow, they reckon about 27 here.

I hope your freezer is OK Ann. Fingers crossed that it’s just a blip. Our window cleaners turned up today as well and I had to dash around closing doors and windows. £20 for us.

I’m not optimistic about getting much sleep tonight. I think it will be so hot and sticky that I’ll probably fall asleep when it’s nearly time to get up. I’d better set an alarm as we have to be out early tomorrow. OH has got a physiotherapy appointment at 8.30 am.

Right, I had better go and water a few pots. Hope you all get a decent night’s sleep.

Fingers crossed we put a whole drawer plus a bit in next doors freezer lucky they had space and it seems as though it might be working ok. It is vulnerable as we keep it in the conservatory so with excessive temps there is possibility of a problem this is the second freezer we have had here but only the second problem in 27 years.

What a thing to happen on a hot day like today AnnG. It might be worth putting a blanket or duvet over it to help. I gave up on the craft video in the end as it seemed to be an advertising wheeze for The Works.

Mel they might even have their T shirts off now for us!! ;-) ;-) :-0 :-0 lol. I wish I was with you and your 27 degrees with a breeze.

We have had 2 showers each today up to now. We went outside to see if there was any breeze this afternoon and couldn't believe how much hotter it was than inside which was 31 degrees. I went in the greenhouse and topped up the tomato and cue pots with water as the cue was wilting and couldn't get out again fast enough! We have had ice lollies and fizzy drinks out of the fridge and just flopped around. It's hard to think it is supposed to be 10 degrees cooler tomorrow..

Just had some thunder and lightening but only a few spots of rain. Chris is out with the hosepipe. We are both grumpy bums today,and it is just to do with the heat.

Oh AnnG have you lowered the temp setting in the freezer? Might be an idea. I hope it doesn't pack up and you don't lose your food. Is it a big freezer?

Ann, you little minx eyeing up the slim hipped young men at the carwash :-D :-D Nice to see they had plenty of cold drinks on hand. I see it is going to be about 10 degrees lower tomorrow here. I might need a coat ;-) ;-).

Mel I really should have just stuck my feet in cold water with the socks on. I do have 3 pairs . My last injection in my tummy tonight :-D :-D. That will be a relief and then the bruises will start to go :-D

At the moment we are at panic stations as our freezer alarm has gone off. Not defrosted yet and we are not sure what is happening. It is a wait and see situation.

It's gone hotter than before here, the bungalow is back up to 27.5 degrees and it's even hotter outside. The rain didn't come to anything and we just had thunder no lightening, which to be honest I was grateful of no lightening when they said we may end up with a power cut. The washing went back outside and now it's all dry. I changed the beds today to, but they'll probably need doing again tomorrow.

I'm so sorry to hear how hot it is by you Jane, 45 degrees is an impossible heat to live with. Could you have a cool shower that would help and sit in front of a fan. I hope it cools down soon. Drink plenty of water.

Hope your windows weren't shut for to long AnnG, that's the last thing you need when it's 32 degrees outside.

Looking forward to seeing the picture of you and your OH with halo's Mel. Pleased to hear it's not to hot where you are.

I've just been watching the baby elephants at Chester Zoo on the news enjoying the water being sprayed all over them, they were having such fun.

O dear your all so hot and there is me down here in 27 degrees and with a nice breezey wind. I do feel for our Jane in those tocking thing. Get that paddleing pool out and put you feet in it stockings and all.

Love ly pic of Jorge laying his head on ???? sorry forgotten her name for the mo. Its the heat.....O Jilly.

Silly me ........

Oh was out feeding the fish a while ago and he said to me look in the pond at my shadow I have a halo. I stood next to him and mine was radiating rays from my head in the shadow. I told him I was radiating love to him. I tried to take a pic but not sure if you can see what I meant. I hav'nt downloaded it yet.

Iv'e got the fan on me and its lovely................................

Ann I will also come when you go to the car wash to see the nice fellas.

I am melting here.There is just no way to keep cool .Thermometer outside on the patio was at 45 just now !!.No idea where Thomas is again :-S

I think I am just going to switch off this laptop as I dont eve nhave the engery to type LOL.

Hopefully things will have cooled down a bit by tomorrow. I am trying not to think about these stockings :-S

No rain here. stifling in here at the moment 32 degrees outside and we have just had to shut all the windows as the window cleaner has just turned up, that is £15 we had not reckoned on!!

Vera I have not even ventured out to do anything in the garden I have stayed in my room which is reasonably cool (with the windows open) and have made 9 easy cards for the charity box. they are mounting up in there. Shall have to get them down to my friend soon.

No Ann I didn't watch the Works live video, I had seen it was on but was doing something else at the time. I am not too good following instructions I prefer to do my own thing.

Jane loved the photo of jorge, he looks really at home doesn't he?

It's just started thundering here so I've brought all the washing in, half of it was dry so it's only a few towels and OH's jeans and t-shirt that weren't dry. No lightening yet but I'm expecting it and it's not raining yet either. Everywhere has gone very dark though so I think we may have the rain shortly.

Love the picture of Jorge and Jilly Jane, they look hot though and poor jilly having jorge laying on her, she must be even hotter. It's nice they are friendly with each other. Hope you're not to hot today in your stockings, I think you're getting the rain first so it should cool down soon.

We've just had a bit of a shower of rain but it didn't amount to anything, luckily I'd just brought in the washing......talk about good timing.

Let me know when you're having your car washed again Ann and I'll be there lol ;-) ;-)

The works Live Craft video sounds right up your street and AnnG's to. I don't pay for the second Sky on the bedroom TV as I have it connected via a wire, it does mean that I can only watch what someone else is watching in the living room, but that never happens as we only watch one TV at a time. It's handy, not to mention cheaper, doing it this way as we can watch TV in bed if we fancy, rather than sitting on the sofa in the winter, it's much warmer that way and more comfortable too. Sandra has her own TV with a freeview box she records her programmes on, so we're all happy.

I don't blame you for only doing 20 minutes in your garden Vera, I struggled watering the greenhouse and it was only a few minutes. Good idea to cry off seeing your friends today you don't want a headache. I had one this morning when I was standing in the sun pegging the washing out, but thankfully it's gone now after taking something for it. Good luck with your travel insurance forms, I hope you get a refund. How is your OH today, I hope he's still improving and managing his walks each day.

Yes, we were pleased with the price of fixing the TV, I said to OH if we had to buy a new one you could probably add a zero to the £68 for a decent one nowadays, so we're lucky it could be fixed at such a good price.

Has anyone got the rain yet, I thought I'd ask as I've just had a bath and have another load of washing to put out on the line, I think it's starting in the midlands area then making it's way up here so I'd like to know if I have time for the washing to dry. The washing machine is almost finished. The sun is out again now, but it seemed to cool down a bit when the clouds came over.

Yes Gill!!! ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D :-D :-D They are a sight for sore eyes and so polite compared with a lot of the English! I noticed they have a fridge in the part where they dry the cars off and it was full of cold drinks. :-D

We have 3 tvs and sky on all of them. There is another tv in the study but didn't really use it so dropped sky on that one when we renewed our contract. It will be good to get yours back again Gill as I can't believe how we managed with the little portables now, but we did. Your hubby is right about aircon costing more fuel than windows down, but only at slow speeds apparently, which let's face it is all we can manage locally on our busy roads. I do miss my little cabriolet in this weather when I could just lift the roof back and let all the heat out in a few seconds.

Mel you have a good selection of things for the show, so best wishes for success with them. Did you have a tot of the gin to see how it has matured? :-D I bet the Koi pool is nice and cool. Have you been sitting on the edge with your feet dangling your toes or are they a bit big for gentle nibbles now?

Vera, I'm not surprised you gave up on the garden after 20 minutes. The air is so heavy and hot. I changed the bed earlier and was boiling afterwards so have given up now and am sitting by a fan.

Did you see The Works Live Craft Video on FB at 11.30am AnnG? I thought it was going to be about all kinds of crafts but it seemed to be all about card making.

Mandy is certainly getting the weather to use her pool this year. I bet the children have been wanting to come round all the time!

Jane, Jorge has settled in and hit it off with Gilly straightaway hasn't he! How nice for him to find a home with a ready made playmate and best pal! I keep wondering how thos stockings must be in this weather too. I'd be tempted to have Chri's wellies on and plunge my feet in a bowl of cold water.

Morning all

Boy, it’s hot. I feel a bit like a candle gradually melting into a pool of wax. It looked a bit breezier out there so I put on sun cream and a big hat and ventured into the garden. I only did some very gentle deadheading but I could only stand it for 20 mins before I had to come in. Our kitchen is a surprisingly cool room but the temperature in there is showing as 30 deg.

I was supposed to be meeting friends for coffee as usual on Thursdays but I have cried off. I can’t be bothered to drag myself round town today. I had to go into town at 11.30 yesterday and came back with a thumping headache from the sun and humidity.

I had to go yesterday to pick up some forms from our travel insurance people that the doctor had to fill in. The docs have had them for over 3 weeks so I was glad to get them back. Now I can get our claim in and hopefully get at least some of our money back.

It’s a shame your shower still isn’t working Frank. In this weather you could really do with a working shower. I hope you can get it fixed soon. Hopefully the doctor has been able to reassure Ros about the lump and bruise on her arm.

Good luck with all your show entries Mel. I had to google Tinners Rabbits as I had never heard of them.

AnninG, what a performance with your meds. Everything seems to run very smoothly here though I used to have a lot of problems when my prescription was handled by Boots. I moved it to Lloyd’s a couple of years ago and have had no trouble since. About once a year the pharmacist has a general chat with me and about once a year I have a review with the doctor.

Gill, it’s good news that your telly isn’t going to cost you too much. I know you like to watch quite a lot of programmes with Sandra so you wouldn’t want to be without it. Good job that you’ve got other sets in your bedrooms. We both like certain programmes but don’t really watch a lot of TV so we’ve never bothered with Sky. I can’t keep up with all the programmes on Freeview so I’d never cope with even more channels. It’s great that you are finding so much information for OH’s tree. It’s a very addictive hobby isn’t it? I am sure you know this already but make certain you check and check again and again. It can be very disheartening to have to delete a whole tree and start again because something was wrong. I know, because I have done it.

Jorge really has settled in well Jane and Jilly looks as though she has accepted him completely. How old is Jilly? How are you managing in this heat? I keep thinking of you in those stockings. I should think they are quite uncomfortable to wear when it’s hot.

Well, I had better see if I can find something useful to do that won’t require any energy and can be done indoors. We’re promised storms again this afternoon and overnight so perhaps that will freshen everything up a bit.

When you go to the car wash again Ann can I come please lol ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D :-D :-D

Pleased to see you had a good nights sleep, I had one to and it does make you feel much better the following day doesn't it? We have air con in the car but OH said it takes up to much petrol so he doesn't use it, normally just having the windows open cools the car down and he only does short trips at the moment so he's not in the hot car for to long.

It's 31 degrees in the kitchen but only 26.5 in the hall, which I find strange as the sun is in the hall and not in the kitchen. It could have something to do with us putting the kettle on quite a few times so far today, or it could be the hot air coming in through the open kitchen door. Either way it's hot hot hot here today. Hopefully my washing won't take to long to dry then I can make the beds up and have a cool bath.

The lawns need cutting but OH said it's to hot to do it today, which I agree with, so they are going to have to wait until it cools down. I've got a bit of a headache with the heat so I've just taken a painkiller which seems to be working and I'm back in front of the fan again. Sandra is watching a programme I recorded for her as it didn't record on her system. We think her aerial has moved a bit in the wind so it's not picking up some of her channels. OH will sort it out once he's allowed to climb on the roof. He sees the surgeon again soon so hopefully he'll give him the all clear and he can get back to some of the jobs he wants to do, so long as he doesn't do to much to soon. I've found some more people for OH's tree so that's coming along nicely and gives me something to do while I wait for the washing to dry.

Morning All,

I slept like a log again with just a sheet over me and the window open as usual. I woke up quite early and as I didn't feel shattered from any lack of sleep I nipped into the village car wash for when it opened at 9.00am. There were 2 cars in front of me already!!! I can't believe the slim hips and waists on those young men, no fat on them, yet they still have muscle from doing the car washing. I must get my car washed more often! lol. The car was showing 30 degrees when I got there, but inside it is 28 degrees now.

AnnG I remember one night a few years ago when we both were so hot we went and stood outside in the dark in the early hours in our birthday suits to cool off! We have also been known to have a cool shower in the middle of the night. When I had hot flushes as well when it was hot I used to put a hot water bottle in the fridge all day and take that to bed with me. It sounds like T is very sensible about playing golf in this heat, OH takes a bottle of water to matches now and always wears a hat. He tends to cover up with long sleeves rather than have sun cream as he comes out in rashes on his arms and legs with the sun. He also sneezes if he looks at the sun, just like his dad used to! His face doesn't get burnt as he has a beard.

OH had a dentist appointment first thing and he has to have his tooth with the loose crown out. He also has to have 2 more teeth out that are cracked. He's being referred to the hospital as he has osteoporosis so the dentist can't do it. :-S I just said to him that it is lucky he knows he has osteoporosis, as so many must be walking around that have no idea and are having dental treatments like tooth extraction. He only got tested after me chivvying him for ages after I read a few years ago about the risk of osteoporosis after taking acid reflux tablets for a long time.

I hope Ros got on ok at the docs Frank. It's best to get these things checked as you say.

Gill, we go out for a ride in the car when it's this hot sometimes as it's the coolest place with the aircon. Luckily more and more shops are air conditioned now and the frozen food aisles are a good place to linger as well. lol. It's good you are doing well with your OH's tree.

Jane that was nice having a chat with a friend. Has the wound healed now? How is Fitz doing now? Once you can both walk further you will be able to rendez-vous down the lane.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GEORGE hope he has a lovely time. How old is he Mel?

I was the same as you the other day, it was hotter outside than in so we left the door shut to keep the hot air out, it seemed to work, although it was the other way around yesterday so the bungalow was hot all day and night.

I hope all went well at the doctors for Ros Frank and it's nothing to worry about. What a shame your shower didn't work and today of all days being the hottest day of the year so far. Hope the little wash you had helped to keep you cool. We have a bit of a breeze which was good this morning, but I've just swapped some washing over on the line and it's boiling in the sun now, even with the breeze, so I'm back indoors sitting in front of the fan again.

Just had a text off the TV repair man, he's found the fault and can fix it for £68 which is much cheaper than buying a new TV. He's going to text us when it's fixed. We had to pay a £25 deposit so we just need to pay him a further £43. So that's a bit of good news as I had visions of him saying it couldn't be fixed with it being such an old TV.

Morning annG and Gill and all,

I stepped out to put something in the bin and wow its hot out there. I am now in the kitchen with all the doors and windows closed as the house stays cooler that way. The kitchen side of the house is north and the bedrooms and lounge is facing south. oh's study is in the front as is the bathroom.

Its George's birthday today, the little boy next door and they break up from school today and they are going to have a BBQ in the garden and lots of friends around so we should hear them enjoying themselve later. I must do his little gift up too and pop it round so its there when he gets in from school.

The sky is clear blue but there is a bit of breeze.