Feeling hot
July 17, 2006I think i’m melting. It’s so hot. It’s great, but I would prefer not to be stuck in an office sans air con and instead be able to lie out in the garden, under the parasol, reading and relaxing.
Cooking tonight’s meal (beef koftas, homemade tomato chutney, mint and yoghurt and potato wedges, if you’re interested) was sheer hell as the kitchen gets so hot in the summer due to the evening sun streaming in through the window. I was sweating like a cop in the queue for the last doughnut.
This heat makes everything hard work. Driving home in the car made me feel like a chicken being roasted at gas mark 5. I needed a sleep afterwards, I was so worn out. I’m averaging three showers a day and still feel I could use more. Going to the gym feels like torture.
But I’m not complaining, believe it or not. The only thing I hate is that just when you get used to the heat, it cools off again. If we had a few weeks of continual heat, our bodies would adjust and we wouldn’t all be flapping around like goldfish out of water. Bloody British summers.
I think my fat butt would die without air conditioning. Us Americans are just spoiled, I suppose.
Agreed, it’s just far too humid here, that’s the problem. And we should have air conditioning for the 2 or 3 months of the year that we really need it (y’know, from the government or something).
My staff don’t understand what it’s like to be a hot black dog. Cool me, slaves.
Jack – you have your own large fan, pointed right at you – what else can we do for you?
And how did you post that comment from under the dining table?!
Purrplechick – Its called a WiFi hotspot.