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[Char]

It's not nice is it Bayleaf, I find it difficult when there doesn't seem to be much oxygen in the air. It's like walking around under an electric blanket.

[Bayleaf]

It's not nice is it Bayleaf, I find it difficult when there doesn't seem to be much oxygen in the air. It's like walking around under an electric blanket.

That too!

[Headers]

Meteo red alert has been issued for Friday 17/6 afternoon for much of Nouvelle Aquitaine.

[Spectrum]

Peaked at 35C yesterday 1700 23% humidity, cooler inside, better after a few cold beers

[Doug]

37c here yesterday, last night was the most uncomfortable ever, 20c out and no air moving with it, 26.7 inside and that in a stone house very well insulated, shutters shut all day. Today they say it'll get up over 40c.

[Bayleaf]

I've set up camp in our "new" downstairs room. It's the end of the house that's built into the hillside rock, so stays cool all year round. Was finally made habitable last Autumn, after 18 years wait! Lovely sleeping temperature, even had to use a light duvet. Not sure how the males of the house are managing to sleep upstairs, I guess they don't have menopause to deal with as a double whammy heat problem!

Years ago, I put up our little tent in the garden when we suffered a similar hot spell. Said goodnight to everyone, and got settled outside after dark. Of course, that was the night the canicule broke, with a storm, and I was too scared to come out of the tent. Finally managed to get some sleep in the early hours, only to be woken by the sound of one of our cats peeing against the side of the tent - close to my head! With a "oh really, ffs! Who is that?!" I decided that maybe camping out in the garden wasn't such a good idea!

[L Austin France]

I was out at 0800hrs this morning tidying up a sapling that had blown down due to the operator of the lamier we had here a few weeks ago cutting halfway through it. . Took a sweaty hour after which it was coffee on the shaded terrace & then indoors as too hot to stay outside.
it's now 24 deg in the lounge & 35 outside in the shade.
Time to turn on the A/C methinks.

[Sparkle]

When I last looked the temperature was 82F in the house so at the moment I'm in a small room at the back of the house because it's the only room we have that has sexsposed stone walls and a tiled floor - it's so lovely to sit with my feet on a cold cold floor lovely jubbly whilst spraying myself with one of those spray tins of water

[Doug]

Was out at 8am as well L Austin France, mowing a small bit at back of house.
Put a thermomiter in direct sun and at 3pm it read 54c whilst in deep shade its 36.4, 27c inside now with all shutters closed.
Another unconfortable night coming up.

[Char]

8.15 this morning getting the car out of the drive ready to take littl'un to school, and I see I have a flat tyre. Thought about dragging the compressor out of the garage to pump it up, started to go and find the garage key and realised that it might be a puncture and pumping it up might not do much good.
Thought about changing the wheel, and the thought of laying down on the hot tarmac to get the spare wheel out from under the car didn't appeal to me, so I reversed the car back into the driveway and gave littl'un a day off school. OH isn't going to be happy when he gets back from blighty though.
Shutters shut downstairs isn't too bad but upstairs is like a furnace -more isolation needed I think.