Wild Edges, I remember my sister and a friend discussing their children who were about to start school. The friend was horrified that the parents had been sent a letter which included ensuring that the children were able to hold and use a pencil. The friend was very worried as there were only a few weeks before the start of term and she wasn’t sure there would be time to achieve it. Sister managed not to look too appalled, but wondered what the child had been doing for the last few years. Obviously no drawing of colouring involved. Let alone any early writing.
My parents taught me to read before I started school, using a mixture of library books and the newspaper because money was tight. Apparently at the first parents' evening the teacher said she was concerned that I wasn't "reading properly", just memorising or guessing from the pictures. My dad asked why she thought that, and the teacher said because I didn't point to each word as I read it. His response (he claims) was "Do you?"
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
It's 7.15 pm and has just hit 30.4c here. We've got curtains closed, windows and doors open and a fan on and it still feels hot!
Try keeping the doors and windows shut. It's counter intuitive but sometimes all your doing is allowing the hot air in. I live in a bungalow so occasionally in hot weather I'll half fill the bath with cold water - sounds daft but according to my temp gauge its reduces the indoor temperature a little. Later on I water the house plants with it...or sit in it to cool off. I like the nice weather but after just getting rid of two BCCs on my nose I have to be extremely careful.
@wild edges - Shade your greenhouse if you can, put in some buckets of water to help keep it cooler and provide moisture, dip their cloth in a bucket as you suggested earlier.
Have a good time away!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The cold water in the bath is a good idea @Chris-P-Bacon. If I filled it in the daytime on a hot day it would have probably warmed up enough for a cool bath by the evening - might try it at the weekend when it's forecast stinking hot again. When I'm working at home on a hot day I sometimes put a (clean) washing-up bowl half full of cold water on the floor to put my feet in, with an old towel beside it to dry off a bit when I need to get up.
I hope your BCCs stay gone. I'm just back from the doctors and he thinks that's what the lump on my shoulder might be.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The cold water in the bath is a good idea @Chris-P-Bacon. If I filled it in the daytime on a hot day it would have probably warmed up enough for a cool bath by the evening - might try it at the weekend when it's forecast stinking hot again. When I'm working at home on a hot day I sometimes put a (clean) washing-up bowl half full of cold water on the floor to put my feet in, with an old towel beside it to dry off a bit when I need to get up.
I hope your BCCs stay gone. I'm just back from the doctors and he thinks that's what the lump on my shoulder might be.
Thanks.. mine were treated with Efudix - I've had this stuff on my nose since February! Not overly pleasant but preferable to having them cut out. Hope yours is resolved soon. Unfortunately, according to my GP once you've had one the likelihood of more is quite high.
I am using Efudix at the moment @Chris-P-Bacon on my face, this is my third week, not pleasant at all, one place is on the bridge of my nose where my glasses rest.
Maybe this will go down like a lead balloon, but I'm getting frustrated by the lack of value given to raising a family. Listening to R4 again, they were talking about Japan and how the women tend to leave the 'marketplace' to start/raise a family. - and the inference was that that some how had less value than continuing to work.
Personally I don't give a stuff which parent stays at home - one, both, neither - it matters not. But what I do object to is the way that parenting is seen as some form of lesser activity. To me it's the most important job anyone will do in their life if they want and are lucky enough to have kids. I'm glad we were fortunate enough for one of us to stay at home until we could both work again - and I'm glad my daughter is also in the same boat. I really think we've lost something in family life since the wars and the pressure on two people to work (and even have multiple jobs) to afford to support a family.
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I live in a bungalow so occasionally in hot weather I'll half fill the bath with cold water - sounds daft but according to my temp gauge its reduces the indoor temperature a little. Later on I water the house plants with it...or sit in it to cool off.
I like the nice weather but after just getting rid of two BCCs on my nose I have to be extremely careful.
Have a good time away!
Not overly pleasant but preferable to having them cut out. Hope yours is resolved soon.
Unfortunately, according to my GP once you've had one the likelihood of more is quite high.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.