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Me, sitting as still as possible with all doors and windows open and curtains shut. Wish I had a paddling pool...
Me, sitting as still as possible with all doors and windows open and curtains shut.
A bit like Anne Frank
Not well, I was doing okay till lunchtime, I try to walk a few miles every day so headed out for a march, came back pouring with sweat and now I stink.
The boys downstairs have got a portable air-con unit, I hugged that for a bit but the damage was done - and I'm not going to get home till 9 tonight, going to spend a few hours in a hot stuff warehouse whilst the eldest climbs.
Naked. I'm going to miss working from home.
Nice cup of green tea, then a ride later.
I'm sat in front of the 18" fan I normally use for turbo training sessions.
WFH, windows open, blinds down, fan on, in shorts only.
Sun has moved off window now, so getting bit cooler.
Glad we don't have video-conferencing for work...
Sat in one of the few air conditioned rooms in a large office block. Outside the door is not only hot but also a seething pool of resentment and jealousy 🙂
Not wearing a jacket and long trousers!
What is it they say? This thread is useless without pictures?
Actually, on second thoughts...
I'm in a third floor open plan flat in a big white concrete building with a refreshing light coastal south westerly blowing through the large open windows..
There's a hint of salt and suntan lotion being carried in on the breeze
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My iPhone told me it was too hot to be used 30 mins ago, put it in the fridge !
I'm fine though, just been paddling around Derwent Water 8)
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18'' fan
butt naked, blinds down windows open slightly. getting obsessed with airflow and holding a piece of rice paper in the breeze to check that air is moving from the shady side of the flat (bathroom) to the sitting/bedroom that are now in the shade. will reverse the process later this evening once the bathroom gets the direct sunlight. also opening the front door now and again as the stairwell is always in the shade and very cool.
currently 27.5º indoors but the laptop and a raid drive plus monitor are pushing that up, probably as hot as it is going to get indoors.
Air Con Wars in our office -
Person 1 - "that's too cold" *turns thermostat up and opens window*
Person 2 - "woo, it's sweltering!" *shuts window and turns thermostat down*
It's disheartening, really.
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A turbo aire fan. It's got some ooooomph - not even slightly hot while sitting at my desk ( dining room table )
Getting ready for a 30 mile fat bikes session later - that's going to be warm.
Air conditioned office sadly.
Modern air conditioned office. Slightly compensates for the tedious work...
I find not bringing up the subject of how hot it is every 5 effin' minutes to be the best cooling technique 
Air con and cold water.
I had an ice lolly after lunch. Needed it after eating outside, a pint of Peroni can only cool you down so much.
Pints of bitter with ice cubes in.
I know, I know, I'm turning into some kind of big girls blouse....
Pints of bitter with ice cubes in.
Philistine!
In the middle of a huge office. Air con, so basically the same as every day. We did go for a stroll at lunchtime to sample the heat though. Love it.
Went for a ride last night, absolutely flew, love riding in the heat.
I serviced my seat post in the garden
WFH.
Board shorts, windows open. Punkah wallah wafting the air, obviously.
Might go for a splash around in the river in a while.
Another 18' fan user here - and ordered a second for the office as one isn't enough. (Currently at CPC Farnell for £34 inc. next day delivery).
jimbobo - Member
Naked. I'm going to miss working from home.
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Bloody amateur!
I'm doing it in the office!
I spent the morning stuck in traffic on the A590 in a hire car with the weakest aircon.
Now in the office with the windows and doors open. On count down until I can leave and go out on my bike.
Barely! In the office, wearing moleskin chinos and a shirt. The Air con has packed in and its now >30'C.
I would just head out, but someone has put an meeting in my diary from 4.
I am a uncomfortable, sweaty mess.
This is the kind of day to ber working from the garden with an ice cold drink.
Air-con in the office, so not too bad.
Sat outside for my lunch in our picnic area. Managed to find a shady spot with a light breeze and it was very pleasant until the breeze stopped; then it was pretty stuffy.
It's gonna be scorchio for the first few mins of the drive home, as my (black) car gets pretty warm & it's right in the sun's firing line.
Once I get home will be the really warm bit - I wanna start getting bits together for the Twentyfour12 but my garage is a real tip, so there'll probably be an hour of 'sorting' before I can even start to get stuff out that I need....might buy a paddling pool on the way home 'for the littlun'...... 😀
Wish I had a paddling pool...
I made one. It's not my finest creation, but it'll do.
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Oh my god, your poor patio. Who laid it, Ray Charles?
You have beautiful toes.
It's fine. But the corner piece had to be sacrificed as it was needed for important load bearing duties.
I'll fix it back at some point...maybe.
One of 4 days a year when I can use my pool.
Just gone for taking shoes and socks off in the office.
I'd worry about the smell but my '4 rides in and counting' bib shorts drying on the windowsill will probably mask my foot odour.
[quote=bearnecessities ]Oh my god, your poor patio. Who laid it, Ray Charles?
you lay one patio...
Nice greenhouse style office, all the windows open and several desk fans moving warm air about.
Quite pleasant at the moment. There's one air conditioned quiet room that has been appropriated by the bloke who doesn't do sun or heat.
Just looking forward to hometime so I can get out on the bike and enjoy some of it while it lasts. I've only started appreciating the summer weather the last few years, I think I've outgrown the mopey goth phase and even own some coloured clothing.
Oh my god, your poor patio. [i]Who laid it, Ray Charles?[/i]
Oh. I see. You were not quite done yet. I'll wait for a bit in case you decide to edit some more.
Jam bo, at least I had the decency to pontificate, panic, over engineer and after two years, build it properly!
Otherwise, yeah, I'll take that on the chin 😀
Edit: Just for you, Bongo.
We're not. Hot office, no AC due to it being a listed building, fan on full, shorts being worn, still sweating like a (insert choice here)...
I'm off to buy ice creams soon though.
Been sat in this heat changing the rear hub on the car - hot. 37.7°C being the peak on my thermometer and 32.5° in the shade right now.
The problem occurred not with seized nuts; they were easy with my 900mm wrench. No, the problem was trying to Wahl my head bald before bathing. I was so sticky it was like being covered in slow setting adhesive - juddering all over the shop. The cut, as you'd expect, is far from perfect but my hair's so light in the summer you have to be really close just to see it.
Other than that - lovely stuff. More, please, sun gods...
no one else out riding then? 😀
40ish miles over and around the SDW with a cracking pub lunch in the middle.
A great day!
I'm sat at my desk in rural Somerset with all the doors and windows wide open, bit scared that I'm going to have to step outside soon...
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38 degrees here in Spain right now!
The short answer is "I'm not"
My office is a cool 35deg the roll floor is 47deg and about 100% humidity, the mill control room is the coolest place at 18deg due to aircon but I can't work from there 🙁
Long curly hair, pink T shirt, blue trews, pink Crocs.
I don't think it's possible to get any cooler, tbh.
Did a 12hr shift last night standing next to a ploymer machine that pumps out molten poly granules @320 degrees. Got back home and tried to get some sleep on the hottest day of the year so far.....Failed miserably 😐
I was in a lovely air conditioned office today having driven their in our MX5. Then there was a bang, and all the lights went off and the fire alarm started. So we all trooped out and I carried on going as apparently it takes ages to sort it out. Watched two fire engines scream round the corner. In Cheltenham this is a bit of an event 😉
Got back in (Very hot) car, drove to FoD to pick up some forks. Had an ice cream. This seemed a better way to pass the afternoon than standing in a hot car park waiting to be let back into a building.
Lovely walk along the river Severn at Arley then in to Bewdley for a Lovingtons ice cream (scoop of rhubarb and custard and a scoop of stem ginger)
Lovely out 38* by the cars thermometer
Been out riding, just got back in, shower etc.
Day out riding at Bike Park Wales.
Very dry, very dusty.
It was hot, very hot. But good fun as usual.
Spent it in bed was on nights last night. All windows open for patients. Made the most of the air conditioning in the clean utility room.
Woke up about an hour ago and had a cool shower. Lovely weather.
Lying about on my fat pregnant arse, nekkid with two desk fans on, without much effect (at home, I hasten to add!).
went for a ride this morning and it was more pleasant out on the bike than sitting here in front of a fan blowing warm air at me 🙂
Why does my car not have an air con vent under the steering wheel, blowing an icy blast straight at my ballsack?
Why does my car not have an air con vent under the steering wheel, blowing an icy blast straight at my ballsack?
What do we reckon, Kickstarter or Dragon's Den for this?
4 hours this morning, gear still on car and off again in about an hours time..
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Mrs Toast - Member
Lying about on my fat pregnant arse
My sympathies, been there, done that, many years ago.
Swim in the pool in balmy Puglia. Only 29C here, cooler than the UK!
Standing in the kitchen helping my 9y make a baked lasagna.
Went for a stroll at lunchtime, coming back to the office was like walking into a fridge. I was thinking I might have to find an excuse to work in one of the servers rooms, but not required at the Bristol office today.
Around 40 degrees here in Xabia. nearly finished this beer then cool off in the pool 🙂
Some after school lido action helped. Unsurprisingly rammed though.
Feel very sorry for overweight people on days like this. How do they cope? 🙁
Been very busy in a hot workshop all day. Lots and lots of iced water is the key to survival. Fans are useless as they just circulate hot air more effectively. Just off to do some photos of a time trial; need to find a shaded bit as a good vantage point.
Have 1 slightly selfish woman in an office of 30 men who turns AC up any time she can.
So came in at 6am, turned AC down to 20c, then sellotaped the perspex cover that sits over the controller, so it looks like it had been locked off by maintenance.
It's been lovely.
In garden now, too warm.
Might have to fall in the kids paddling pool.
Went for a run.
Bit of a shock coming from edinburgh to 32degrees in newbury.
Top tip
A bottle of mouthwash (the kind that still contains denatured alcohol) with a hole carefully pierced on the top, gives a great cooling effect to clothes when liberally applied.
Works great at night on Jim-jams etc.
Went for a walk in the Moorfoot Hills (it was pretty warm) then had a swim in Gladhouse reservoir - lovely and cold!
A good day to be unemployed.
currently 27.5º indoors but the laptop and a raid drive plus monitor are pushing that up, probably as hot as it is going to get indoors.
Just a shame it wasn`t 27.2,it may have made the room come alive 😀
The mouthwash also works well at cooling down insect bites...careful near camp fires, etc.
There's some areas you don't want to douse with mouthwash...
So, for your 'bettys'...
Currently in cold bath - no pictures needed - after 60 mile road ride. Hot work especially climbs Singleton-Goodwood and Fernhurst-Midhurst (shaded, phew). Major bomk at 46 miles. 🙁
Catching up on news on iPad. Yet to go below the shoulders ! Lovely and cold though.....here goes....aaatgghhh
Cycled up Minch Moor at Inners to find a breeze, it was nice but the flies wanted lunch, so I biked back down again and forgot all about the heat for 30 odd minutes.
Spent the day in an airconditioned office. For once, it was the right temperature!
I made up for the all day comfort by spending an hour and a bit in a train. A slow moving train with tiny windows and no form of aircon. I had lots of company though, which was nice. 😕
The kids went to bed about 15 minutes ago, I am now happily ensconced in their paddling pool, which is conveniently within arms reach of the BBQ.
Bliss
That's better and 5lb lighter too!!
Short road ride this morning- 24 miles x 3000 ft- and an afternoon fiddling with bikes outsde. Total failure to keep cool.
butt naked, blinds down windows open slightly. getting obsessed with airflow and holding a piece of rice paper in the breeze to check that air is moving from the shady side of the flat (bathroom) to the sitting/bedroom that are now in the shade.
Same here minus the butt naked bit though 😆
Not bothered by the heat too much but trying to get some air moving to cool the little ones room down, I'm like a home airflow ninja now 8) Was 33 degrees in our engineering workshop today, the good thing was the office staff had to suffer the same as they haven't had their air conditioning fitting yet 😆
12 mile ride back to the car mostly uphill got me nice and hot. Went for a swim in the river before driving home. I'm sure there was a hiss of steam as I got into the river.
I was tempted by a nice stream just after Duncton too!!
being a postman, absolutely zero chance of keeping cool.
AC got a good work out in the van on the way home. 😆