It's too d*mned hot!!

We've jinxed it guys....it's now back to being jumper weather...

Works for me!

I'm happy in the evenings as the breeze is LOVELY. I don't mind the lack of sun so much but I just prefer it to be warm with a breeze (sun or not). I hate that I'm back in a jumper haha although I am going to the US in less than 2 weeks so hopefully I will get some more warmth once I'm there (although, my luck, it'll be LUSH here and miserable there the second I touch down on US soil).

I'm happy in the evenings as the breeze is LOVELY. I don't mind the lack of sun so much but I just prefer it to be warm with a breeze (sun or not). I hate that I'm back in a jumper haha although I am going to the US in less than 2 weeks so hopefully I will get some more warmth once I'm there (although, my luck, it'll be LUSH here and miserable there the second I touch down on US soil).

We still have some sun, but I suspect that in Kent a lot of the weather skips right over us.  We watch the news most days and get ready for rain or whatever based on the forecast, and it often doesn't live up to the forecast. Luckily we got rain last night; yesterday I walked out through some of the villages (with sunscreen!) and the fields looked pretty dry/maybe even parched. 

This is within my ideal temperature: 65 degrees and partly cloudy.  I can wear dresses comfortably but when I go to work in a suit it's not too too terrible like last week!

So far today it's cool and cloudy, but not breezy. That would mean the hayfever is going to be bad for a while, I guess. The Daughter has had the worst hayfever I've ever seen over the last month. The NHS doc got her patched up pretty well, though. But that was impressive - any medication advertiser could have used her as the ultimate reason for needing their stuffs. So a little drizzle would be good, as it'll take the pollen out of the air.

I haven't quite got a handle on how to know when it's going to rain, though. (So I never know when I can hang the laundry out, or if I need to wear a wind-breaker, which is passing for a raincoat until our stuff gets here from the USA, or not.) Some mornings it's clear as a bell at 6:00am, and then by 8:00 it's spitting, then on and off all day. Or not. Daughter says to just expect it to rain, and if there's a sunny spell that's the unusual bit.

I haven't quite got a handle on how to know when it's going to rain, though. (So I never know when I can hang the laundry out, or if I need to wear a wind-breaker, which is passing for a raincoat until our stuff gets here from the USA, or not.) Some mornings it's clear as a bell at 6:00am, and then by 8:00 it's spitting, then on and off all day. Or not. Daughter says to just expect it to rain, and if there's a sunny spell that's the unusual bit.

My problem is that I'll expect it to rain imminently and won't hang up washing but I'll end up having a solid few hours in which I could've got my laundry sorted out outside!

I don't know if this is the case with you but I thought I'd add that my hayfever was at its absolute worst when we hung washing outside to dry.  Apparently that's a really good way to catch pollen in your clothes, according to my last doctor.  It went way down once I started hang drying stuff on hangers or a rack inside.  So....one problem might solve another in this case, although I don't know for sure if that's making her hayfever worse.  But it might be worth a try...hayfever is terrible, I hope she feels better ASAP.

I'm not sure if I put too much stock in this myself, but maybe you could get some local honey.  Maybe look on the web for the local beekeeper association?

Yeah, we're doing the local honey thing. Was able to find some from a lady who literally lives within a mile of our place. No obvious difference in the allergies, but the honey is lovely.

Yeah, am no longer hanging much of anything out - it's all going through the dryer or hanging in the house. Wanted to have the sheets in the sun for the disinfecting qualities, but the pollen and the rain are kind of putting the brakes on that!

I'm not sure if I put too much stock in this myself, but maybe you could get some local honey.  Maybe look on the web for the local beekeeper association?

I have such a funny story about this.  My dad's allergies are awful, worse than anyone else's in the family, and he decided to try this.  He got what he thought was the most local honey he could find and it seemed like it was really helping a lot.  Then we found out the honey was only bottled locally, it was actually from China.  So I guess there's a pretty good placebo effect on my dad at least!

But if he ever goes to China he's gonna feel great!

I've had honey that was still warm from the bees, it was incredible.

I haven't quite got a handle on how to know when it's going to rain, though. (So I never know when I can hang the laundry out, or if I need to wear a wind-breaker, which is passing for a raincoat until our stuff gets here from the USA, or not.) Some mornings it's clear as a bell at 6:00am, and then by 8:00 it's spitting, then on and off all day. Or not. Daughter says to just expect it to rain, and if there's a sunny spell that's the unusual bit.

Have you encountered the phenomenon where it will be raining yet you can't see a cloud in the sky and the sun is shining brightly?  That's my favorite.

Yeah, that one is good!

Or I look out the windows on one side of the flat and it's dark and dismal and raining, and look out the windows on the other side and it's sunny, blue skies with puffy white and a rainbow. That one's pretty good, too!

Have you encountered the phenomenon where it will be raining yet you can't see a cloud in the sky and the sun is shining brightly?  That's my favorite.

Haven't seen that here yet. Happened all the time in Colorado!

After the last heat wave, I bought a portable a/c unit.  Figured it would be worth it even for the few days we need it each year.  Got this puppy cranked up right now.  Just had a penguin ice skate past me in the lounge.   

My husband jokes that since I grew up in Florida, I'm used to it being cold (as everything is air conditioned)!

MIL was bought an AC unit as she can't handle this heat........is it weird that I think it's weird that you need to put ice in it?!