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Fbg 7.1
I got virtually no sleep so its not when I wake up...

Well, my intentions for sleeping in the potting shed last night didn't happen.
Video editing was playing up with this new software. And the video wouldn't save...
A friend needed a shoulder to cry on.
It just takes a second or less to make an absolute pig's ear of everything, and affect the rest of your life (and maybe the lives of others).
Life can be so fragile...
I fell asleep in the middle of all this. I was overloaded with her problems.
Then woke up.
It was pitch black outside.
It was 11pm.
Too late to set up for the night in the potting shed.
I was on my bed guarding my bedroom door which was open to the garden, and the wild beasties, and when I went to look for Midnight, he was guarding the other back door which opens up into the garden, from the wild beasties.
I decided we were probably quite safe enough with the doors open to the garden. In all probability the wild beasties will not stir from their cool underground lairs in this heat.

I was still wrestling with this new video software. I thought I had learnt enough to do the simple essential bits, but it would not save.
I don't know whether the iPad was having enough of this heat or what, but finally I haphazardly deleted fragments of my video, and tried one more time. It saved this time. I didn't bother checking whether the video was good enough by this time, I just posted it on Instagram and YouTube.

Then I locked the two back doors. All fans and humidifiers and misters were going. Midnight refused to come in. I fell asleep.
About an hour later I awoke suddenly sitting bolt upright, with a jolt.
My bedroom was hot and airless.
I thought for a moment I had died because I wasn't breathing. I was in suspension. I couldn't breathe. I wasn't struggling to breathe. Everything was suspended. There was a weird sense of peace to not breathing. The air was too hot to take in a breath. On another level of thinking, I realised my personal fan round my neck had run out of battery power. My bedside cabinet fan had run out of water for the humidifier, and so had turned off. And the end of the bed fan and humidifier had done its duty for 9 hours, and so went on auto shut off.

Fortunately I had some spare small fans fully charged on the bed, and bottles of water. Got my fan system going again quickly. Tried to breathe...I was successful in breathing again. Flung the back door and bedroom door open again. It is still dark.

I am not closing those back doors tonight, and not until this heat wave is over....those badgers and foxes are the least of my problems.

Back garden temperature is 26C at this minute, and it's the same temperature inside the bungalow, more in the kitchen despite 3 fans going.

This promised thunderstorm didn't materialise...

I need to move to a cold place where there is snow all year...

Or to a house which has a cold underground bunker....

Wild life video...a hotchpotch of clips put together...
58secs
Badgers & Foxes & a Cat

Creative...Kaleidoscope in Laboscope of wild flower Red Campion.

Have your best day.

I have been asleep on and off mostly today. Too hot for me to function....

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Good afternoon from a stinking 30ºC and still climbing here in the very bright and beautiful Marbella. Apart from our taxi to Leeds-Bradford airport not turning up at the booked time of 0445 and having to call another company, the journey over went quite smoothly. As it’s so hot, we are sat on our shaded balcony chilling out until we surprise our pal at dinner tonight. His wife and daughter set the whole thing up a few weeks ago to celebrate his birthday. What fun. Nice apartment complex thing. Mrs Miggins is overjoyed that one of our bathrooms has a bath in it and declared UDI - I think that mine will get raided for cooling showers from the new power crazed bath dictator. Art bit - a tree of course, but one hour ahead. Hope your day is going well. @gennepher, I hope you can get some coolness into that furnace of a bungalow. Koffy has been consumed so now a glass of crispy dry white wine and a glass of water.
 

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@dunelm and @gennepher thank you both for sharing your artistic talents and hugs for you both on the effect of the heat in your environment. 25-26ºC outside here today which is at the low end of my sweet spot. We are all different and this thread has opened my eyes to many conditions and lifestyle preferences. I hope the evening proves cooler and more manageable for you both.
 
dunelm said:
Good afternoon from a stinking 30ºC and still climbing here in the very bright and beautiful Marbella. Apart from our taxi to Leeds-Bradford airport not turning up at the booked time of 0445 and having to call another company, the journey over went quite smoothly. As it’s so hot, we are sat on our shaded balcony chilling out until we surprise our pal at dinner tonight. His wife and daughter set the whole thing up a few weeks ago to celebrate his birthday. What fun. Nice apartment complex thing. Mrs Miggins is overjoyed that one of our bathrooms has a bath in it and declared UDI - I think that mine will get raided for cooling showers from the new power crazed bath dictator. Art bit - a tree of course, but one hour ahead. Hope your day is going well. @gennepher, I hope you can get some coolness into that furnace of a bungalow. Koffy has been consumed so now a glass of crispy dry white wine and a glass of water.
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You can keep your 30C @dunelm
Your tree looks like a person to me doing gymnastics...
Keep drinking that water...
 
ianpspurs said:
@dunelm and @gennepher thank you both for sharing your artistic talents and hugs for you both on the effect of the heat in your environment. 25-26ºC outside here today which is at the low end of my sweet spot. We are all different and this thread has opened my eyes to many conditions and lifestyle preferences. I hope the evening proves cooler and more manageable for you both.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
Thank you for your wishes Ian.

Take care of yourself...
 
ianpspurs said:
Next week we have the ho, ho, ho lympics. Interesting stat: Longitudinal analyses find that the average male Olympian is 6ft and weighs 175lbs. (12 stone 7 or 79.4 kgs). Oddly enough that was me at my sporting peak. They have muscle, I’d feel like barrel man at that weight now. That stat and barrel man comes from here. Have I ever mentioned I like many things American :D - not Trump or Apple though. Barclays gave me Apple TV rather than cashback - the mean Bs.
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I have been barrel man since giving up playing footie.
I was a skinny waif, 5ft 7. Seven stone dripping wet.
But I could run. Think mentioned my cross country exploits at grammar school.
But I was a ratter, till I found my position at right back (behind the goalposts!)
I do actually have a mug with dad bod on it! A dad's day gift. (I suppose, I have put a little back on)

#7 & #8 turned up and ran amok until it started spitting, a little shower, so tele on and Ra Ra on the box in front room, I went in back room to Medway eye on the cricket, it's as flat as the steppes of Russia.
Draw on the cards.
Atherton said. £40 to get in tomorrow!!!!!
Has he seen the forecast?

Mrs L has taken time out to have an afternoon nap, or is it evening or something else like teatime. Whatever!

Kitchen duties to do.
Enjoy your label named time between now and bedtime.
Best wishes.

Trump wanted a wall in Texas. Well archaeologists have found a prehistoric wall. Nowhere near the border!
But if you don't ask you don't get?
 
ianpspurs said:
Next week we have the ho, ho, ho lympics. Interesting stat: Longitudinal analyses find that the average male Olympian is 6ft and weighs 175lbs. (12 stone 7 or 79.4 kgs). Oddly enough that was me at my sporting peak. They have muscle, I’d feel like barrel man at that weight now. That stat and barrel man comes from here. Have I ever mentioned I like many things American :D - not Trump or Apple though. Barclays gave me Apple TV rather than cashback - the mean Bs.
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Olympics are fabulous, but at the wrong time of year for me.
Always on hols in August, so wouldn't be in as a kid.
Same as a teen. And cricket of course.
First born in June, when Daly won his gold in L.A.
During next couple of decades far too busy with live to watch live.Coaching pre season etc.
When with footie club, pre season in July and start of season in August, was really busy.
And I never got into the habit of watching live.
Always highlights in the evening or when I could.
Even London '12, is just a blur.
I do admire the Olympians. Except the cheats!
Honestly wasn't aware that other than end of Tour de France, Disney, and the Eiffel tower, was happening I Paris this year!!!
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.1
I got virtually no sleep so its not when I wake up...

Well, my intentions for sleeping in the potting shed last night didn't happen.
Video editing was playing up with this new software. And the video wouldn't save...
A friend needed a shoulder to cry on.
It just takes a second or less to make an absolute pig's ear of everything, and affect the rest of your life (and maybe the lives of others).
Life can be so fragile...
I fell asleep in the middle of all this. I was overloaded with her problems.
Then woke up.
It was pitch black outside.
It was 11pm.
Too late to set up for the night in the potting shed.
I was on my bed guarding my bedroom door which was open to the garden, and the wild beasties, and when I went to look for Midnight, he was guarding the other back door which opens up into the garden, from the wild beasties.
I decided we were probably quite safe enough with the doors open to the garden. In all probability the wild beasties will not stir from their cool underground lairs in this heat.

I was still wrestling with this new video software. I thought I had learnt enough to do the simple essential bits, but it would not save.
I don't know whether the iPad was having enough of this heat or what, but finally I haphazardly deleted fragments of my video, and tried one more time. It saved this time. I didn't bother checking whether the video was good enough by this time, I just posted it on Instagram and YouTube.

Then I locked the two back doors. All fans and humidifiers and misters were going. Midnight refused to come in. I fell asleep.
About an hour later I awoke suddenly sitting bolt upright, with a jolt.
My bedroom was hot and airless.
I thought for a moment I had died because I wasn't breathing. I was in suspension. I couldn't breathe. I wasn't struggling to breathe. Everything was suspended. There was a weird sense of peace to not breathing. The air was too hot to take in a breath. On another level of thinking, I realised my personal fan round my neck had run out of battery power. My bedside cabinet fan had run out of water for the humidifier, and so had turned off. And the end of the bed fan and humidifier had done its duty for 9 hours, and so went on auto shut off.

Fortunately I had some spare small fans fully charged on the bed, and bottles of water. Got my fan system going again quickly. Tried to breathe...I was successful in breathing again. Flung the back door and bedroom door open again. It is still dark.

I am not closing those back doors tonight, and not until this heat wave is over....those badgers and foxes are the least of my problems.

Back garden temperature is 26C at this minute, and it's the same temperature inside the bungalow, more in the kitchen despite 3 fans going.

This promised thunderstorm didn't materialise...

I need to move to a cold place where there is snow all year...

Or to a house which has a cold underground bunker....

Wild life video...a hotchpotch of clips put together...
58secs
Badgers & Foxes & a Cat

Creative...Kaleidoscope in Laboscope of wild flower Red Campion.

Have your best day.

I have been asleep on and off mostly today. Too hot for me to function....

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Hi @gennepher, it's raining here quite hard and cooler. Around 20degrees.
Dark clouds coming from your way, I'm surprised it isn't there.
I'm certain there is something called a cold water bottle or some thingymybob, that you can use. A thingymyjig that will help keep you cool.
Kaleidoscope marvellous, with what is going on, I applaud the efforts.
Stay cool, cause a draught, that is what I do.
 
ianpspurs said:
@dunelm and @gennepher thank you both for sharing your artistic talents and hugs for you both on the effect of the heat in your environment. 25-26ºC outside here today which is at the low end of my sweet spot. We are all different and this thread has opened my eyes to many conditions and lifestyle preferences. I hope the evening proves cooler and more manageable for you both.
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It also shows the difference in weather, and how different it is within a few miles.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you and as the saying goes right back at you. I am in awe of you and those in your position. I do so enjoy reading how your garden, the sport and your family (and even gammon :D ) sustain you. You know from whence I'm going to say those blessings come :D Reasonable people can disagree amicably. Have a great day. BTW if you can get access watch Ted Lasso I think you'll enjoy it.
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Good morning all in full chat, I read a lot just about every day. Learn a lot more about the English language than controlling BG. I do enjoy reading. Enjoy the interesting topics and conversations. My BG and A1c are stable and well in control w/o meds. I am 73, and life is good. Thanks to all! Omar
 
Lamont D said:
Hi @gennepher, it's raining here quite hard and cooler. Around 20degrees.
Dark clouds coming from your way, I'm surprised it isn't there.
I'm certain there is something called a cold water bottle or some thingymybob, that you can use. A thingymyjig that will help keep you cool.
Kaleidoscope marvellous, with what is going on, I applaud the efforts.
Stay cool, cause a draught, that is what I do.
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It was blazing burning hot sun this morning @Lamont D
Dull clouds this afternoon.
IT IS NOW RAINING!!!
I do half fill a rubber hot water bottle and pop it in freezer. For feet.
Also 3/4 fill a plastic bottle water and freeze. For feet.
So a couple of thingumybobs and thingumyjigs....

But it is my breathing as well that causes problems in hot weather...hence my fans and misters and humidifiers.

Thank you for the kaleidoscope compliments.


EDIT (written at 1 am, my bedside mister ran out of water and I woke instantly) I forgot to say of course a towel is wrapped round the bottles. I wrap towels around the hot water bottles as well.
Remember the heavy glazed earthenware hot bottles we had as children? I used to love finding them in the bed....
 
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The Zoom course was brilliant. Only problem was that it was so much information - my brain is completely fried.

They are sending us a recording and more course notes - thank goodness as there are bits I definitely need to go over again.
 
gennepher said:
It was blazing burning hot sun this morning @Lamont D
Dull clouds this afternoon.
IT IS NOW RAINING!!!
I do half fill a rubber hot water bottle and pop it in freezer. For feet.
Also 3/4 fill a plastic bottle water and freeze. For feet.
So a couple of thingumybobs and thingumyjigs....

But it is my breathing as well that causes problems in hot weather...hence my fans and misters and humidifiers.

Thank you for the kaleidoscope compliments.
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When I was diagnosed with PF last year one of the nurses advised me to buy a hand held fan and when having difficulty breathing to use it to blow air onto my cheek as they have found this can help with breathing I have tried it and does seem to kelp at times.
 
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