9862 It aint 'arf hot mum

Agree it is v.hot. Having watched the awful rain for the past couple of weeks we were pleasantly surprised to find the sun had come out last weekend when we arrived - apparently it has been even hotter this week! I read that it is all down to la nina/el nino but that this summer will be marginally cooler than last. I know this may cause problems for the local farmers etc but for those of us with just a couple of weeks break it is heaven!

Jackie

I understand Polase mineral supplement is adviseable too for the heat.

You are going to think me mad, but take a pretty warm shower. Never a cold shower. If you have a warm shower then you can dry off by evaporation and it is like personal airconditioning!

Agree with Charles. Hot drinks rather than cold, but I think we have been here before.

At night I find a fan at the end of the bed useful, mine has a timer so can be set for say one hour in which time hopefully you have drifted off & I find lots of water helps enourmously with keeping me cool.
Bunch

agree with Sally about the Polase - had one summer where I felt soooo tired, listless and generally unwell. Saw an ad on the TV, bought the product and now know I need this supplement if the temperatures continue above 30 for a period of time. You don't notice that you're perspiring as the air is so dry and water doesn't replace the salts.

Went up to Aspromonte today- managed to find a place 10°c cooler! I always take a bottle of water with me wherever I go. There are drinking fountains around but I haven't mastered the fountain drinking yet! Why oh why is it so difficult?!:veryconfused: It's 9 o'clock and it's 29°C out! :eeeek:

At the moment in puglia we are melting, but we have found, that the salt intake has to be increase, to allow for natural replacement, plenty of fluids, along with alot of fresh fruit.
Get up earlier and have all your chores finshed before 10:30am and start again at 6pm.
Drink fluids that are isotonic, and don't contain alot of sugar, as sugar coats your tongue and doesn't quench your thirst. If it is a friut jusic water it down with some pre chilled water.
Have a siesta when the weather is at it's hottest. and a misting spray can also help when out and about.

If all else fails go to the sea and jump in.!!!:laughs:

Our answer is to be on the beach at 7,00, swim or walk, coffee at 9.00, home at 10.00, lunch at 12.00, bed at 2.00, up at 5.00, work at 6.00, eat at 9.00, bed at midnight, up at 6.00 ready to start again.
Done this twice this week, could get used to it.
Normally the early part of the day is work til 9.00 then it's too hot for outside, otherwise same as above.
Rainstorm this afternoon so the temp has dropped to 25C, managed to burn a lot of garden rubbish while the ground is still wet.
Stribs

I bought my struggling lap-top a present today, it's a stand which goes under the computer, with a little fan powered from a usb port, and it (so far) has done a great job in stopping it crashing through overheating. Made by Belkin, and about €30. It reminds me of those baseball caps with a battery-powered fan in the peak!

I noticed a building worker today, who I thought must have been Chinese because at first glance he was wearing an enormously wide brimmed coolie hat. Actually what he had done was to cut a round hole in a piece of cardboard about 60cm square, stuck it over the crown of his head, and held it in place with the ubiquitous baseball cap. Clever, heh! Unfortunately I didn't have the camera to hand....

You are all so lucky. I am mad with jealousy. Every day, well it seems like every day, we get rain, rain, rain. If not rain then wind. Last Wednesday some of us round here even put the heating on in the evening it was so cold and damp. Will the good weather last til mid-August?
Annie.
PS I know the location gives us in Marche, but I write from the East Midlands.

I'll be different and hope for rain!

The hot weather is nice for a tourist but for those of who have to work in the heat it gets very tiring after a while.

My suggestions would be:

Eat light - No greasy food.
Don't drink coffee but water instead
Keep the shutters closed during the day to block the sun.

and finally, install an air con system. There is no escape from the heat. Once the bricks in the house are hot the house will remain hot (even if it rains)

(i only ever use air con at night at least that way i get to sleep!)

I agree AnnieT the weather in the uk is awful. We are not getting any summer just like last year.
I look at the weather in different areas and keep thinking 'what am I doing here?'
PS what happened to global warming- we now think its a big con!!!

My husband, who is living in our house in Picinisco (Cassino region) speaks to me daily on the phone saying "it's bloody hot". I am here in Durham moaning "it's cold and raining". As I write, it is thick fog outside!.

I am going to Italy next Friday for nearly three weeks, dying to see the sun after this dreadful summer we are experiencing in England yet am nervous about how hot it is over there as my body is still in winter mode. Will I cope with the extreme differences in heat?

Who cares. My two foot thick stone walled house is lovely and cool inside so Ron tells me so I will just join the dog and lie down on the tiles to keep cool.I just cannot wait to get over there again.
Maralyn

glad to see some positive comments about the heat... i always enjoy it when the heat gets up above the sort of thirty degree mark... everything just feels better... i seem to be lucky compared to some... i eat basically much as i do any other time... drink much the same too...rarely touch water and have no air conditioning... except in the cars...

i guess i walk a bit more slowly... in the middle of the day anyway... house feels fine... always get a breeze after lunch...and again in the evening...mornings almost fresh ...with nice breeze and early 20 c temps...

office... always around the 18 c mark as its a vaulted type cellar building and basically the temp never really changes much... sometimes have to go outside to get warm....

anyway to me its great...summer and continuous sun... what i live here for ...along with food and wine and just about everything else...

I wish my house was a steady 18'c.

In the last week the temp has dropped inside my house to around 29'c but last week when it was hitting 37'c outside, inside the house was like an oven at 31'c. (even at night)

The area in which i live has a high humidity, very little wind and full of zanzari.

If you don't like air con then a dehumidify can make a real difference. It does not make it cooler but at least it takes that sticky feeling away! You will be suprised at how much water it can extract!

Personally when i'm not working the heat does not bother me but i do feel for those that suffer. Perhaps people coming from a colder climate do feel it more but its a personal thing as i know italian that suffer too.

Yes, Borrini, where is global warmIng? It is definitely not happening here in England! Climate change maybe. We don't get summers like we used to.
Eeh, when I were a lad..........cue Monty Python!
Annie.

Yes Annie when I were a lad we would have been glad of a hole in the ground to get cool in.....
and Maralyn I'm going back to UK next week and according to reports I will need gloves and a scarf!
I think some of this global warming stuff is more about extremes of weather than subtle rises in temp.
When I get the enormous some of money given to me by some person I helped many years ago with no thought of gain (of course) I will design and build the perfect keep-cool house right here - now there's a project!

This is the first year I can remember where, here in Durham :
I haven't opened the skylight windows at my studio/workshop to let in fresh air
I haven't had the fans on whilst we are working on our art work
I haven't sat out in the garden of an evening instead of being in a stuffy room
I have had to wear shoes instead of sandals at times (ie yesterday)
I have to take a light coat with me
I have to make sure I have an umbrella with me
I haven't taken my duvet off the bed
Well I think you get the idea that this summer, except for about five days in total, hasn't exactly come up to much and now, half way through July I doubt we will have much of a summer at all.

Roll on Friday when I fly out to Italy for nearly three weeks. It may be hot there but boy, does that beat the fact that blue sky is a rarity in the UK these days.
Maralyn

I almost wish for rain now, especially when i am working as a life-guard

It means that the Italians then run off to the doctors for their flu jabs and i get an easy afternoon sitting under an archway :bigergrin:

Shame it hasn't rained in a month...

[quote=Italiargh;92862]Shame it hasn't rained in a month...[/quote]

HA! Come to the Valle d'Aosta then! I'm working driving a van and trailer up and down the valley for a local white water rafting company. Plenty of rain and the river is pushing through fast at the moment, even though the snow melt is lower as freezing level is only around 3000m.

Mountain breezes mean I don't have air-con or even a fan.

Don't believe the weather forecasts. Here in Surrey we have the most glorious weather. Have just walked the dog (7am) with short sleeved top - needed wellies due to the dew - but came back hot. Wonderful sunshine. For the last week we have had some wonderful days but also some rain - and I must admit when it rains it is Italian in proprotion! However the clear skies in between the rain makes the rain worthwhile.

[quote=Flyingpigs;92873]Don't believe the weather forecasts. Here in Surrey we have the most glorious weather. Have just walked the dog (7am) with short sleeved top - needed wellies due to the dew - but came back hot. Wonderful sunshine.

Maralyn, we should move south. My friend in Reigate and my sister near Bournemouth have had lovely days, warm evenings, and even days when it was too hot to sit in the garden. Yesterday evening we managed to eat outside at about 7pm, but I did have a light fleece on. We still have our duvet on the bed and I have even had the electric blanket on once or twice. My son has given up and has left Newcastle and gone back to London. Today was supposed to be hot and is, guess what, grey and overcast.
Yours grumpily
Annie.
P.S. The sun came out at 3.30pm but did not stay out for long.

P.P.S. Today, Tuesday, Summer has arrived in Rutland. We have sun and heat!

I travelled south to Harrogate today for a trade fair (well it is south to me from Durham) and the forecast seemed good. But it was almost gale force wind, very warm, but there was a misty rain (how come? blue skies and dotted around clouds). As the trade fair venues around Harrogate were stuffy it was actually very refreshing going outside to be sprayed with a lovely fine mist and cool off. Temperature was 22 max.

Three more sleeps and I will be in Italy. If it is as hot as my husband says over there, I doubt I will sleep the three weeks I am there. So off to bed now to make the most of what the hours I can sleep in the UK.
Maralyn

I shall be interested in your comments on your return! Summer only lasted one day in Rutland. We are now back to April viz. sun, showers, wind, sun, showers, wind.......
Annie.

What a difference in the last couple of days in this area. Thunder & lightning, hailstones and the temperature dropping from 20C at 9.00 a.m. to just over 14C thismorning. Even the heating is starting to kick-in.
The pond which was empty 2 days ago is now completely full and the excess water is going out through the overflow pipe and into the ditch and there is still drainage from the fields above coming through.

And i'm coming over on Thursday........ I need a little bit of sunshine pleaseeeee. :yes: