What Are Your Plans For This Heatwave?

24-06-2018 05:45PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Is this what they call the Power of Positive Thinking...

Survive is here and enjoy the ocean etc..

I call it Persepoly Thinking

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-06-2018 05:47PM

To be honest, it's no hassle until constantly over 28c for me. As it stands, and as forecast for here, I'll just enjoy it with walks, gardening, and reading in the sunshine.

flazio · 24-06-2018 05:50PM

My local shop that sells ice-cream with flakes for €2 has reduced the price by 1c. So now I can get one 99 for €1.99

Nekarsulm · 24-06-2018 06:39PM

Graces7 wrote: »

((((HUGS))))

Hugs are always welcome, Grace, and a hand catching reluctanc ewes even more so!
I freeze plastic bottles of spring water the night before ( leave an air space for expansion) and they stay cold for hours the next day on the tractor.

JupiterKid · 25-06-2018 12:48AM

Will avoid the worse of the heat but subbathing and swimming in the nip.

BorneTobyWilde · 25-06-2018 01:37AM

Makes me cringe when I see pale skinned people burnt to a crisp. Why oh why do they want that pain for what is a few days sun.

WoollyRedHat · 25-06-2018 06:49AM

Messing about in boats

Ronan|Raven · 25-06-2018 06:54AM

My plans are to drop dead.

erica74 · 25-06-2018 06:57AM

Well I have to work during the day but outside of that time, I'll be getting plenty of sun while wearing factor 50. Seeing all the stupid sunburned people always bamboozles me.

Graces7 · 25-06-2018 07:04AM

survive.. was out very early in the dawn and that was lovely. Light reflecting on the still ocean...

But when they light the furnace... OUCH! The walls here are aluminium.

ArtyC · 25-06-2018 07:06AM

Working up til Wednesday .... the fridge is stocked with meat and salad.

I've instructed the OH to have the BBQ gleaming .
So prob start off the day Wednesday with a sleep in, a swim in the sea and I've books stacking up nicely to read ! Heaven!! And yes sunscreen a must !!

Teyla Emmagan · 25-06-2018 08:24AM

I will be moving from shadow to shadow and staying inside as much as possible. I am more of a six degrees and overcast sort of girl.

cbyrd · 25-06-2018 11:48AM

I stocked up on doorstops in lidl . I have a lovely cool house. I don't go out* til evening time if I can help it because I can't use suncream and I burn in about 5 minutes. It looks beautiful though

* except to the line with the 14 baskets of laundry I'm doing every day because I can get it dry on the line.. if it fits in the washing machine and its not nailed down its getting washed ..

25-06-2018 11:51AM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I will be moving from shadow to shadow and staying inside as much as possible. I am more of a six degrees and overcast sort of girl.

Where have you been all my life!!

:pac:

Ciaran_B · 25-06-2018 11:55AM

Spending as much time outdoors as possible. At the park, down by the canal, up in the mountains - all that good stuff. The 8 hours a day I have to spend indoors at work is not a lot of fun.

LirW · 25-06-2018 11:56AM

Laughing at all the Irish people melting and complaining at 20something degrees.

Embracing my goth summer dresses.

And then still getting a sunburn purely for karmic reasons, because I still haven't learned I'm not back home anymore and for some magic reason my skin burns here.

BorneTobyWilde · 25-06-2018 12:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Where have you been all my life!!

:pac:

In the shade obviously.

silverharp · 25-06-2018 12:32PM

just back from the Algarve, its a bit nippy here

B0jangles · 25-06-2018 12:45PM

LirW wrote: »

Laughing at all the Irish people melting and complaining at 20something degrees.

Embracing my goth summer dresses.

And then still getting a sunburn purely for karmic reasons, because I still haven't learned I'm not back home anymore and for some magic reason my skin burns here.

You stayed here too long so now you're a local.

You already get sunburned in about 30 seconds, so you'll soon start to think 18 degrees is 'fierce mild' and develop a 6th sense for when there's great drying out. :P

Graces7 · 25-06-2018 12:53PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Hugs are always welcome, Grace, and a hand catching reluctanc ewes even more so!
I freeze plastic bottles of spring water the night before ( leave an air space for expansion) and they stay cold for hours the next day on the tractor.

Oh been there done that many times. Wish I were nearer.. At one rental I used to round up my landlord;s cattle when they got loose...which was often! I miss doing that here!

erica74 · 25-06-2018 01:17PM

cbyrd wrote: »

I stocked up on doorstops in lidl . I have a lovely cool house. I don't go out* til evening time if I can help it because I can't use suncream and I burn in about 5 minutes. It looks beautiful though

* except to the line with the 14 baskets of laundry I'm doing every day because I can get it dry on the line.. if it fits in the washing machine and its not nailed down its getting washed ..

Same:pac:

Purple Mountain · 25-06-2018 06:12PM

Does anybody know?..
I'm quite fair and burn easy so I sit in the shade.
The last few days I've been outside lots but either sitting or lying under a parasol.
Obviously I'm getting lots of fresh air but do I still get Vitamin D?

verycool · 25-06-2018 06:15PM

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Does anybody know?..
I'm quite fair and burn easy so I sit in the shade.
The last few days I've been outside lots but either sitting or lying under a parasol.
Obviously I'm getting lots of fresh air but do I still get Vitamin D?

No. You've to T pose in your birthday suit whilst staring directly at the sun for at least twenty minutes.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48 · 25-06-2018 06:39PM

Unfortunately the heatwave has claimed the lives of two men in their 50s one from Dublin and one from Donegal when they got in to difficulty swimming. So while you are enjoying the sunny warm weather please take care when going to the beach. Apologies for putting a downer on this thread but I thought I would just highlight the dangers while out swimming.

Purple Mountain · 25-06-2018 06:45PM

verycool wrote: »

No. You've to T pose in your birthday suit whilst staring directly at the sun for at least twenty minutes.

What about I get down on all fours?

Star Bingo · 25-06-2018 08:18PM

😅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecalDRGlbP4

Chev_Chelios · 25-06-2018 08:32PM

Few cans and enjoy the world cup, I find my tolerence for the heat has gone up which is nice.

25-06-2018 09:35PM

I didn't enjoy work today. Hate being inside when the warning is so nice. But booked Friday off and a half day on Thursday! Beach on Friday hopefully.

25-06-2018 09:37PM

Feckin' heat. Feck off.

/end plan.

Poochie05 · 25-06-2018 09:38PM

Staff barbecue is on Thursday evening and I’ve a day off on a Friday.
This will be the first year the sun will be shining at the barbecue and we're not all huddled in the canteen for warmth

What Are Your Plans For This Heatwave?

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