I’ve opened the windows but no heat comes in, just the sound of the neighbours in their pool. Time to drag the amps to the garage and rock out until I’ve drunk all the beer in the fridge.
Or I can get on the bike and cycle to Wallingford for a paddle in the river followed by beers.
Too hot to work!
I should have that on a t-shirt
The timing of my recent surgery and then needing time off to let it heal is incredible, I feel for those doing physical jobs outdoors over the past six day's heatwave.
Not just outdoors, feel a bit sorry for those I just left to do some HTV printing for me. (No, not the above mentioned t-shirt) Can’t be much fun operating a hot press in this weather
Outdoor physical job worker here, I’m normally ok with heat but today is a struggle, having ppe on (helmet, boots, trousers) isn’t helping, just glad I’m not felling any trees, arb’s in this heat earn my respect (which is already high!). I’ve sacked off mowing grass as the dust (even with a face mask on) is unbearable
Stop moaning! It won't be long before you are all moaning about the cold, long dark nights.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
I've been routing a load of mdf in the workshop. Not pleasant.
Sweat and mdf dust can do one.
Painting outside and it’s a bit of a race as it’s drying so fast.
Not enjoying this week tbh
You want to try wearing fire kit
Spare room office, curtains closed, fan on but the sun is pouring in anyway.
I'm sat in a pair of running shorts and nothing else, if I get an impromptu video call I'm stuffed but so be it.
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MemberYou want to try wearing fire kit
You’ve had to change out of your pyjamas?!
Etc etc
Doesn't cut it. I've tried. They said "you shouldn't have moved to Oz, you stupid pom"
Not even. When it's 42c in the shade you pray for the Freo Doctor! (Those who know, know)
Houns 😉
The high internal temp alarm has just sounded on my weather station in the office. It's set at 35 deg C!
Doesn’t seem too bad it’s about 8c in my office with the windows shut.
I am physically fairly comfortable in the back garden where it's about 32C. But I cannot concentrate on work in the slightest!
Just had my lunch break and swapping out seven GU10 lights in our new outside lights wore me out. Glad to be back inside with the curtains closed.
I bet even scaffolders will be cursing this weather. Or then again maybe not.
Digging in some drainage and breaking concrete today, it's a little sweaty to say the least. Was up at 5, but couldn't start until 8 due to noise restrictions. No doubt when I get a day off it'll follow the trend set since lockdown of being wet and crappy!
Stop moaning! It won’t be long before you are all moaning about the cold, long dark nights.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
I'm going to agree with you on this, I was flicking through Strava yesterday, 22/08/19, probably a cloudy day, but I ended up having borrow a riding light from my mate to finish the Wall at Afan after work, we lose 2hrs of daylight through August.
Glad it's not just me, working in my home office with no top on. Today i would happily trade this feeling for 20 degree air conditioned rooms!!
We're in the process of moving into a 2nd house so my desk is currently a garden table minus the parasol!
I decided I can play guitar when it’s raining this evening so I cycled to Wallingford, paddled in the Thames and am now sitting outside the Coach and Horses watching a bloke flying his parrot (the bird, not the drone) like it was a falcon. Brilliant to watch.
Well the paddling pool is filling up. Ready for 4pm when I need to finish as I'm working from a room which is south facing and has been getting hotter by the hour.
“Outdoor physical job worker here, I’m normally ok with heat but today is a struggle, having ppe on (helmet, boots, trousers) isn’t helping, just glad I’m not felling any trees, arb’s in this heat earn my respect (which is already high!). I’ve sacked off mowing grass as the dust (even with a face mask on) “
Yeah, I’ve spent my day felling. Well, 20 min of felling then 30-40 in the shade drinking litres of fluid
I don't moan about it being too hot and I won't today. I'd prefer it to be like this rather than the perma-glum we'll be back to in a couple of months. Its bloody brilliant. Finish at 5, get a cold beer, eat some tea, go for a ride (again). Oh and I've just been to the post office and come back with a load of freshly made cakes. Work is brilliant!
28.2 in my kitchen (close to the coolest room I have). I have to admit, my ability to concentrate is limited at this temperature.
I have got a t-shirt on that I soaked in the sink earlier.
I used to work in a commercial kitchen, standing next to a deep fat fryer or flat plate grill in this weather in nasty too!
Spent the last hr sitting in the car with the AC on full, gonna have to go back out as im melting and cramping up
My workroom is in the attic. It's quite cold in the winter and stupidly hot today (36o).
I can't mentally work in that. Also listening to the horrible family next door with all her friends round, smoking and wasting water (we're in a lock down) is not helping my mood.
Am now about to do a jigsaw and resume duties later this evening.
Just finished a Home Delivery shift, lugging crates of food and beer in and out of the van (that has no Aircon but does have a fridge in the back) then up stars to flats etc has destroyed me! Don't like the heat at the best of times but today is just torture.
28 in my 'office' which feels cool, cos it's about 32 in the garden where I've been sitting all day.
Just qualified a £150k salaried candidate wearing nothing but a pair of running shorts. If I can any impromptu video calls I'm stuffed!
Meanwhile, in China
My workroom is in the attic. It’s quite cold in the winter and stupidly hot today (36o).
Yup. That’s my situation here.
I've been building stone walls out of rough stone that all needed shaping with a big hammer.
It was 32C in the shade.....I was not working in the shade
Very little PPE today, Shorts and boots and gloves. I have strange tan lines 😂
I had to close my office window and turn the fan off for a conference call earlier and it reached 37c.
As soon as it finished the window was open, the fan was on full blast with 2 2ltr bottles of frozen water in front of it as a ghetto aircon unit. Managed to get the temp in here down to 30c but its still too hot to work
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Doesn’t cut it. I’ve tried. They said “you shouldn’t have moved to Oz, you stupid pom”Not even. When it’s 42c in the shade you pray for the Freo Doctor! (Those who know, know)
I know! What do i win? Last Christmas i experienced living with temps of 40ish for a week in Exmouth not enjoyable.
Been escaping the worst of the French heatwave by staying up high in the mountains it's amazing how much easier it is to cope with highs of mid 30's when it cools down to 14 degrees each night. Respite to recharge for the next assault.
26km walked and 10.2 tons of crap in the dustcart today.
work in heat treatment company - 44°C everywhere inside. it's a relief to go outside occasionally.
I’ve been building stone walls out of rough stone that all needed shaping with a big hammer.
It was 32C in the shade…..I was not working in the shade
Very little PPE today, Shorts and boots and gloves. I have strange tan lines 😂
Ha. That's exactly what I've been doing all week. Except I had a vest on as well. I have really strange tan lines. 😂
Today's work highlight:
Colleague walks into our small office, 32 degrees and airless - "It stinks in here, I can smell your bollocks".
I replied with "It's ok, I can smell yours too".
She wasn't impressed.
Finally got our thunderstorm. Proper continental style one, I'm not sure I've ever seen one in Cardiff, too far west.
Stayed too long at the pub so ended up riding home in the downpour. It was pretty entertaing really.
Was up in a 6th floor plant room in Central London the other day, that was hot enough for me, to get to the roof I had to climb an access ladder and through a perspex access hatch, the void below the hatch was like I'd just put my head in an oven and the top rungs of the ladder were like a towel radiator turned up to the max. At least the territorial seagull had decided it was too hot to bother dive bombing me.
myti
I know! What do i win? Last Christmas i experienced living with temps of 40ish for a week in Exmouth not enjoyable.
Try 3 months mate. Gets on ya t!ts a bit. You do kinda get used to it. Just not the 32c nights.