General Chat

Good morning all. 21 degrees here, think it wa around that all night it was a hot one. Last day jobs to do, hairdressers 11am and daughter is already on her way so a few hours worry about that.

Just come in from the garden as I went to feed the fish and my ponds pump had stopped again. I took the skimmer basket out and cleaned that and put it back in jiggled the pump and plugged it back in and it went thank goodness. It almost looked like something had nbeen in the pond so I put a few more cable ties round the netting.

I am now going to have a nice salad.

Don’t look forward to my trip to the hairdresser tomorrow morning. Luckily it is easier than my usual 12 o’clock appointment as it is at eleven so walking may be a bit cooler.

It sounds as though we’re all having much the same temperature. I’m OK, Mel, I can cope during the day but I do struggle in the heat at night. At the moment it looks as though Wednesday will be cooler and then it warms up again.

I’m not looking forward to tomorrow as OH has a doctors appointment in town, followed by an optician’s appointment and there is a bit of a trudge between the two . I also have to go into another optician further through town so another walk in the heat. It’s also 0H’s birthday tomorrow so a few days ago I booked a table for lunch at his favourite pub/restaurant. I doubt if they have air conditioning so it could be very hot in there. I might be ordering a small salad and a glass of cold water.

I am more than ever convinced that your OH and mine share a gene somewhere along the line Annx. I can certainly relate to your stories. Today I got “what have you done with the garage side door key? It’s not on the hook”. This is in spite of the fact that he locked the garage last night! I found it for him and heard a lot of muttering about not putting it back in the right place. He was very lucky not to get something thrown at him. Is yours good at mansplaining? Mine will explain as though to a 5 year old what I should have done to achieve something even though it’s what I would have tried in the first place. I also get cross when I am an invisible housekeeper e.g today he had 3 hats by the back door. I asked if 2 of them could be put away. He agreed, decided which one he wanted left out and walked away, leaving me to take the other two into his bedroom and put them away in his cupboard. I told him to just call me Dobbie. (In case you don’t know Dobbie is a house elf in the Harry Potter stories,). He’s not really as bad as I made him sound and he will sometimes surprise me by doing something nice, but he can be very irritating, or perhaps he’s just being a man.

I’ve got a phone call to make so had better get on with that as I said I would call about 4.30 pm. Have a good evening everyone.

Still 30 degrees here. I washed my hair and only gave it a short dry and then put it up again and as it was damp it was nice and cool.Iv'e had a good wash up of all the dishes and Iv'e also done the water filter jug so that water can go on the plants so as not to waste it and then I am away to fill it and have a nice cup of tea and a biccy, disgestive light.

yes 32 here now too. Just had a bowl of ice cream from the freezer that was nice. The heat saps your appetite I find.

Mandy yes, bound to be a few broken limbs. As it is not now a legal activity because it used to cost too much with police and ambulances on stand by, people do it at their own risk and the only first aid present are I think St John's ambulance.

32 degrees here too! I just hope it doesn't end up getting muggy with this heat. I decided to hang the curtains I got for the study to keep the heat out and worked out the spacing of the hooks and measured how low I wanted them to hang so they slide behind the top of the radiator during winter. I was all ready to go and then couldn't find the hooks I bought, so I'm having a tidy up in the study and hope they 'appear' as I'm sure they are in here.

What a shame the water problems didn't get fixed yet Mandy, but at least you are still getting some water. Yes the weedkiller spray wasn't like the others I've had. It has a green strip pointing forwards on the top that I wasn't sure what to do with! The yellow bit the spray comes out of just came off in my hand and neither of us could get it to fix back on! Thank you and I'll look carefully at the new one when we get it and try what you say.

32 here and we're in too ,got all the windows ,curtains and blinds shut and it's just nice with the fans going .

Oh my goodness Anng I saw the cheese rolling on the news this morning there will be some broken limbs this afternoon I bet with how they roll down the hill

31 degrees here and.like Mel I am staying indoors. I bet the cheese rollers are finding it hot too, or more probably the spectators. I would imagine ther will be some sunstroke victims this afternoon as well.

My pc keeps throwing a wobbley and telling me I need more space so I turned it off for a while when I had lunch.

Its 30 degrees here so I am staying inside till it cools down later and then I will go out and do some watering.

Thats awful they hav'nt got your water supply back to normal Mandy but it sound like you are getting a bit through to stock up on some for during the day.

I need to wash my hair which is always nice when its hot just to let it dry and I also need to wash some pots so I can pot up some of my cutting into bigger pots.

Stay cool all. thinking of our Vera in this heat.

Morning all,

The sky looks quite hazy with cloud so the sky doesn't look so blue today but my goodness it's hot .
Still low water pressure and apparently its not just a leak there's also a problem with a pump so some places are still without water ,I also read that tge men doing the burst pipe went home at eleven o'clock last night and still weren't about first thi g this morning.

Anglian water are now going to deliver water to the vulnerable as the water shouldn't be fixed until about 4 o'clock this afternoon .
When I turned the cold tap on this morning it hummed and vibrated, so it's air in the pipes .
We have all our windows and curtains closed to keep the heat out then I fling the windows open later in the evening to let the cool air in.

Ann is it one of those tops on the weed killer that you have to get hold of and nip and pull forward then turn , I had a job with a nozzle on a spray, I didn't realise you had to nip and pull and was just trying to turn it like most spray bottles

Gwyn I hope your getting my email photos OK as you haven't mentioned them ,I don't want you to think I've missed you out .

Coffee time now bit late this morning as we've been chatting to Colins sister.

Oh I managed to miss you somehow Gwyn. Yes we do the same with the curtains to keep the sun and heat out. OH was up at 6.00am and opened the bathroom windows wide and patio door, but they are closed now the sun is moving round and it is hotter than inside. We are staying inside now till evening. I nipped to the Co-op first thing and it was bliss in there with their air conditioning, so I lingered a bit.

I hope Mandy has the water back to normal now and that they fixed the burst main.

Morning All,

I slept well with the sheet up to my waist. Our bedrooms face south east so get hot in the morning and the back of the bungalow faces north west so gets hot in the afternoon. I got up at just after 8.00am and went out and watered the new plants and the potted Hostas and a Camellia in a pot, pulled a few weeds and couldn't get a weedkiller nozzle to work at all. OH then appeared and as usual it was 'what did you do to the nozzle' and 'you must have done something' etc. I hadn't used it before, so told him it could have got knocked over in the shop for all we know, but I think he preferred to think I'd done it somehow. Anyway he couldn't get it to work either, so I think we'll have to get another and then we can unscrew the nozzle on this one and empty the contents into the new one once it's empty. Oh he does make a song and dance over trivial things at times and I'm always in the identity parade! lol. Next time something goes wrong I think I'll line myself up with our four teddy bears on the settee and ask him if he recognises the one responsible for the crime.
:-D

Oh Mel, they were very tiny seeds and it's good they germinated so well but it sounds like you will need some magnifying glasses on to prick them out. My duvet is the same and soon gets a 'thin' end despite giving it a shake when the bedclothes are changed.

I see what you mean about the probable fluctuating temperatures at your daughter's AnnG. I hope you get your packing done before it hots up much more. The PC is saying 28 degrees here now and I expect it's the same where you are.

I'm washing a throw Vera and doing some admin, but like you won't be doing much else.

25 now. packing is a slow job today I think.

Good morning all.

25 here so far, but indoors it feels cooler, as we've had the north facing bathroom window open overnight and the south side of the house has curtains closed.

I hope you all manage the heat OK today., especially Mandy with her troubled water supply.
South-East Water are in the news again, as yet another of their areas are having to rely on bottled water, at the moment.
I will be staying indoors and not venturing outside until this evening.

Mel
Was it definitely a queen wasp you saw?
With you mentioning hornets in the same post, I wondered if you had seen the dreaded invasive Asian Hornet, which needs reporting, so that the nests can be destroyed before the hornets destroy so many pollinators.

Keep safe everyone.

Morning girls,

Its 23 here at the mo clear blue sky and not a cloud in sight. My pc says a cooling trend over the next four days.

Slept wellish woke for the loo very hot and went back to bed as it was 6am and threw the covers off.slept then till 8.30am. I think I may have put the duvet on another way round as usually the bit over me has hardly any stuffing in it. May have to take it all off again and find my thin bit.

Anng you're the same as me then the front of the house faces north so stays nice and cool and I don't open any windows as htat make it hot in here.

Good morning all. 21 degrees so a bit below Vera but it already feels sticky. I slept OK finally woke at 0815 and now have towels in the wash.

Packing today and tryine not to get over heated. luckily the front of the house faces north so doesn't get full sun like my bedroom at the back.

Good morning ladies

8.20 am and it’s already 23 degrees. It’s going to be a hot one. I need to do some washing but I won’t be doing much else. Try to stay cool and have a good day.

It is just under three weeks Ann. Some of the days in the second week are forecast 13 degrees. Other days 20 so you can see the problem.

I can”5 pack last minute as I need to do everything in the spare room and daughter will be in there on Tuesday. So packing tomorrow it is.

Annx I have just watered as its a lot cooler out there now and when I did the shed your seeds have come up like mustard and cress. I sowed them thickly but this is manic the amount of seedlings to prick out. I shall have to ask a neighbour if she wants some. I'm so pleased.