Flip flops and shorts. Generally moving about with the speed of a sloth. I rarely break a sweat actually. Slowing everything down comes extremely natural to me 😝
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Rem33,my neighbours don't ever open either their bedroom or lounge blinds,or windows,not in 10 years,i think that's weird,what are they hiding in there! Yesterday, however for a little while,blinds were pulled up! You can see they have the lights on,our properties were identical but ours is still open plan,so theirs is now really dark,who has lights on,in the day in the summer.as soon as they go away and someone "house sits" the windows are flung open.
About 36c is pleasantly warm for me @Hostafan1, over 42c is getting at bit hot. We were once in outback NSW at Christmas time and it was 44-5c, that was hot. We spent all day up to our necks in the swimming pool. A week later we were in Victoria and it was so cold at night I had to go and buy some bedsocks to be able to sleep.
Having emerged from an extended afternoon siesta, a cold outdoor shower early evening is a fabulous way to cool down, don’t bother drying yourself, just don a cool cotton waffle robe, pour yourself a generously iced G&T with a large slice of lemon and sit in the shade. Miss out the G if you are a TT, just tonic water is really refreshing, but no slimline please, ugh!
Easy to rig up a shower with a hose and lance attachment, add a beach windbreak or similar for temporary screening if you don’t want to frighten the neighbours 😱
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm OK up to 30°. The last 2 days we have been visiting gardens. I hate it when it's 35° when I'm in my house in SW France. At the moment I'm in OH's house in Norfolk. Weather is lovely, I'm in a cotton summer dress. In France when it's very hot I have a huge cotton T shirt which I dip in cold water and wring it out, wear it damp. But my French house has very thick stone walls downstairs which keep it cool. Upstairs the bedrooms are under the slope of the roof which is hotter, although insulated. I shut the shutters in the day and open them at night.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Got hot flushes due to age here also so I'm an expert at this!!
All windows and blinds shut in the day And open at night. Garden hand mister in the house. I sleep on two of those pet cooling mats, one under my head one over my body. If working in the garden I take my t shirt off and run it under a cold tap, wring it out and put it back on again. Drink lots of water 💧
tbh, I don't find very hot or very cold weather, or indeed any weather a problem, apart from the close, low, muggy days, esp when it's hot. If the sun is blazing and the skies are all clear I just try to lie still in front of a fan. But 30oC and close - which we have in London now - I find so hard. I get cracking headaches and my eyes feel puffed out. There's nothing you can do - you just have to wait until the skies clear. The last week has been pretty clear in London but we look to move into a few weeks of heavy cloud. I feel like I'm suffocating. Bleurrgh
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"hot" starts at 40C
Easy to rig up a shower with a hose and lance attachment, add a beach windbreak or similar for temporary screening if you don’t want to frighten the neighbours 😱
Just have to remember them if I go into town just in case I fall over or a sudden breeze occurs!!!!!
(I have forgotten in the past!)
All windows and blinds shut in the day And open at night. Garden hand mister in the house. I sleep on two of those pet cooling mats, one under my head one over my body. If working in the garden I take my t shirt off and run it under a cold tap, wring it out and put it back on again. Drink lots of water 💧