The HEAT

Good choice. I smell 🙂👍 🐻

I'm doing fine in the heat, it's the mosquitoes and things that bite that are the issue. Oh, and the families who choose to take their little demons out for the day so all I hear on my walk to and from work is children screaming and crying, or parents yelling at them and taking up the whole path. Bring on September!

I do imagine we are in for a bitch of a Winter now tho. This heat is too good to be true.

Which is why I find it odd that adults complain about the way so many children now seem to think they are celebrities in their own movie and say 'being famous' is their life goal. The American movie-style 'prom culture' thing has been introduced by adults and is part of the process that grooms them into thinking that way. I presume it is also very lucrative, with the outfits, makeovers, stretch limos and the rest - part of the process of milking kids for cash that continues with the increasingly exotic school trips and the high-rent luxury student accommodation that gets them inured to being in debt.

It was a sixth form ball in my day, even though by then we didn't really call it the sixth form as we'd moved past the idea of numbered forms in that way and just referred to the era in question as Year 12 and Year 13. I'm sure we did have discos when leaving first school and middle school, but they were literally just discos, as in "come to the hall, wear your joggers, and we'll bring in that one dad who fancies himself a DJ to play some pop tunes for you to bounce around to". The sixth form ball at least involved hiring the function room at some local sports ground or other. (We had leavers' concerts and plays and stuff too, 11 year old me played a MEAN Pied Piper of Hamelin.)

I hate this heat.

I seem to be able to cope with it on holiday as can dress appropriately, have air con, a swimming pool to cool down in etc but here it's horrible. No air con at work

I don't agree.

I think we do drizzle better than anyone.

To be fair, it's not just extreme weather that causes huge problems with our infrastructure in the UK though.

And (serious question) is this current weather spell that we're having really that extreme?

Well according to that earlier message we shall be getting fully air conned trains in 2030. Do excuse me if I don’t join you then.

They'll be little point in being on an ice cool train if you're not there lynette so I won't get too excited.

Been a nightmare trying to sleep all week, think I managed 8 hours all week, last night with the little sleep I had, I kept waking up with terrible cramp in my leg, I suspect because of the heat, when I mentioned this to a colleague suggested that I may sweat a lot of salt?

It’s now the time of day when it’s both really sunny and really humid. Preparing to die as I walk to the train station.

It's quite nice to experience the turnabout in the office, not gonna lie. Usually the men turn up in suits and set the air-con to please them, leaving the ladies having to choose between also wearing suits or just shivering all day under a big cardigan.

And dresses aren't *entirely* an option in this weather; a lot of offices insist they must be worn with tights, and even sheer ones are a nightmare when it's this hot, and if you're wearing a skirt with no tights, you run the very real risk of chafing, which is something nobody wants. Thank goodness then for linen trousers.

Still, this weather is excessively warm, absolutely no reason why the gentlemen can't collectively and politely approach their managers and make a business case for being allowed to wear work-appropriate shorts on days like today. In all but the most conservative work environments (and in those, EVERYONE is wearing a suit more often than not), they should be open to negotiation.