How do you all keep cool? Other than swimming in out door pools, having air con in the car /workplace etc.... what ideas have you for keeping cool?
What constitutes a "Heatwave"?
your 10 quickest ways of cooling down!
1. cooool shower
2. industrial fan at max!
3. bowl of ice cubes near the fan
4. lots of cold drinks
5. being the one to keep topping up the ice cube tray and standing infront of the freezer!!!
6. wearing next to nothing (it's a bra free zone!!)
7. closing curtians from the suns direction, then opening them after it has passed
8. ice cream
9. cups of tea
10. in extremis - the local out door pool (when the kids are at school)
Keeping Cool in the sudden heatwave!!
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Keeping Cool in the sudden heatwave!!
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As any arab, indian or asian will tell you - the best way to cool down is to drink hot tea - this raises the internal temperature, provokes mild perspiration, which is turn lowers skin temperature through evaporation.
In Tunis in June it is 33ºC at 21.00 hours, and they offer you mint tea, boiling hot, to refresh you, not water ( and certainly not alcohol ! ... nice try, though, Dave...)
In Tunis in June it is 33ºC at 21.00 hours, and they offer you mint tea, boiling hot, to refresh you, not water ( and certainly not alcohol ! ... nice try, though, Dave...)
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Is it true, Josh, that a certain gentleman of the Peele went to breakfast this morning in full Housey and then changed into his pyjamas and went back to bed?Eruresto wrote:And you know what the worst thing is? I keep forgetting not to wear full housey! Help!
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I think we can state a heatwave - my thermometer is going over 30 in the shade.... it nearly blew up when Saz decided to see what the temp in the sun was....!
The thing you mustn't do - is take paracetamol or asprin for headaches in this heat, as if you are suffering heatstroke you can kill yourself - it's tepid bathing, iced water or fruit juices - nothing that will actually raise the temperature of the body until it is back to normal -
toot toot - poor boys - in this weather!
The thing you mustn't do - is take paracetamol or asprin for headaches in this heat, as if you are suffering heatstroke you can kill yourself - it's tepid bathing, iced water or fruit juices - nothing that will actually raise the temperature of the body until it is back to normal -
toot toot - poor boys - in this weather!
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Agreed.Euterpe13 wrote:... and, IMHO, it isn't a heat wave until the thermometer is over 30ºC...
27C with 90% humidity is also pretty damn hot.
40C is also pretty hot too.
I'm afraid my perceptions of heatwave have changed after being in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand during the summer. Ouch hot.
Whats worse - dry heat or humidity? I reckon humidity but when dry heat gets above about 40C then its nasty.
Though the weather could last til I get back. I need to top up my tan.
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I found 40ºC + in Tunisia ( dry heat ) less tiring than 38ºC + 90% humidity ( Singapore) - the humidity makes you feel that you are breathing water.... exhausting.
Actually, I think it's almost hotter in the UK at the moment than it is here in Barcelona - make the most of it , folks, it aint gonna last !
Luckily the air-conditioning in the office works fine - a lovely 20ºC at the moment . Unfortunately, my humble home is not so well equipped...
Actually, I think it's almost hotter in the UK at the moment than it is here in Barcelona - make the most of it , folks, it aint gonna last !
Luckily the air-conditioning in the office works fine - a lovely 20ºC at the moment . Unfortunately, my humble home is not so well equipped...
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Just not allowed, JR! You had to fall in for breakfast, dinner and tea outside the House. The dormitories and lav ends had to be cleared 5 minutes earlier and the bogs downstairs vacated when the cry came to fall in.
Punishments for being late were swift and automatic. Repetition of offences - even trivial ones - would almost certainly result in a beating. However you had to be singularly stupid not to learn the lessons of punctuality at a very early age. It is a habit I have always maintained and, even now, I can never understand why some people are habitually late.
Punishments for being late were swift and automatic. Repetition of offences - even trivial ones - would almost certainly result in a beating. However you had to be singularly stupid not to learn the lessons of punctuality at a very early age. It is a habit I have always maintained and, even now, I can never understand why some people are habitually late.
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