What is the weather like there? General Chat

Still a fine drizzle for most of the morning here. Very overcast and cool. British summers. You've gotta love 'em

Still raining and it feels cold.

Have I had a long sleep and woken up in the middle of winter?

A glorious day here. The temperature's around 27C but with a cooling breeze. The dogs were walked fairly early this morning and I'll take them for a run along the cart track later this afternoon.

Because it tipped it down with rain yesterday afternoon and evening, Madam wouldn't settle at bedtime ... mainly I think because she hadn't seen Sashicat all day! She nearly drove me mad with her keep wanting to go out to see if Sashi was around. After letting her out 3 times I finally got fed up and ORDERED her to bed. Such a cruel mum!

I am not going to complain again.
I am not going to complain again.
I am not going to complain again.

I will just sit here and melt in silence.

Actually I am not really melting. Well, only leaking slightly. Because I have two very small but very effective fans which plug into USB ports on my PC. One sits on something on my left, and the other sits on something on my right - both facing me diagonally.

I also have the a/c on although not very cold, just enough to take the edge off the heat in the room, but shortly I will have to put the others on that face the back - kitchen, back room and my bedroom [which faces in three directions. I already have had to close the trissim so there is just enough light to see not to bash into things but even though I really need all the a/c units on I cannot afford the electricity.

None will be on cold - believe me 28°C is enough to take the edge off the heat, which shows how unbearably hot it is at the west-facing back, and the unit in my bedroom, which stays on all night, is only on 26°C.

But these two little fans, each with three speeds, are worth their weight in gold - not that they weigh [or cost] very much, and which will charge up if switched off but left plugged in at night. They can then be unplugged and used anywhere until the charge runs out and they need plugging in again.

Been a lot better today DRY, with glimpse of sunshine.

Same here - actually managed to put some washing out on the line.

A lot better day today. Overcast all morning, but warm and dry. The sun made a couple of brief attempts this afternoon too

The last few days have been lovely, hot and sunny but bearable.

No comment!

Just green with envy!

We really should have gone early, so no walks today. 35c in the garden, 25 in my coolest room. It may not be as bad as Malka's conditions, but too hot for me. They have promised us a thunderstorm, but there are no dark clouds yet.

It was lovely this morning while we were out. Warm with a nice breeze. It got very hot this afternoon, but we were in hibernation with all the windows thrown open. Bit of distant thunder at the moment and it's a toss up as to whether we will get the threatened storm

We had a thunderstorm last night - and wow! - what a storm it was. Spectacular lightning. My husband has to sleep downstairs in the extension because of mobility problems, and water started dripping on his head from the skylight. So I had the fun of moving the bed at eleven o'clock at night. And even more annoyingly, I had spent ages earlier that evening watering not only my own garden but my neighbours' as well, who are sunning themselves in Cyprus. If I'd known were going to get all that rain I wouldn't have bothered!

Nice so far this morning.

No leaks but an explosion. I had a 1.5 litre bottle of Sprite on the floor in the back room [no cupboard space] and it blew up around 3am.

I really am not a very happy bunny at the moment

This morning was lovely but by noon it started to rain. And I had to go to the hivatal (municipal offices) which are only open 3 days a week for a few hours. I wasn't going to take the dogs but changed my mind and bundled them into the car. It was raining quite heavily when we got into town but OMG by the time we arrived back home the heavens had opened and just opening and closing the driveway gates left me soaking wet. And it didn't help because the little black devil decided he didn't want to get wet and refused to get out of the car and I had to haul him out much to his disgust!

Still no rain here, but it is looking increasingly likely. Added to which, I have just bathed Merry for her show tomorrow - an ancient rain making ceremony, second only in power to that of starting a wash cycle.

Ah, so I shall know who to blame when the rain comes!

For me it's cleaning the windows!

Way too hot today. We got the storm last night, but, if anything, it made things hotter. It's supposed to cool off tomorrow so fingers crossed for that