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Post by DI Alex Drake on Aug 12, 2018 21:31:44 GMT
I don’t remember anything like this before. The only thing I do remember is 2003; I was 10 and spent most of two weeks with my cousins in Reading. They had a swimming pool and we spent a lot of time in it because it was hot. I’m fairly sure I remember my geography teacher saying a couple of years later that perhaps 10th august (?) that year was a record and he was stuck in traffic on the M6! I think that day we actually put a gazebo over the swimming pool just to stay vaguely cool.
But never, ever anything as prolonged as this. Last night I slept under a duvet for the first time since about May! And it doesn’t feel like I’ll need to tonight at the moment.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Aug 12, 2018 22:12:00 GMT
I'd recommend getting ceiling fans Bolly. Annie and I put them in every bedroom here early on after having the kids so that we all benefitted from the cooler breeze that they gave throughout the night.
I also remember 2003 being very hot. That was a couple of years after I first started commuting to London and the trains were still the old slam-door carriages. The journeys were unbearable as the heat caused the rails to buckle which made the trains to run very slowly. The only aircon was open windows and the trains couldn't go fast enough to get any cooling breeze.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Aug 12, 2018 22:20:15 GMT
Oh wow, that sounds like absolute hell. We’ve still got slam door trains down here by the way :p you metropolitan types would probably think you were time travellers if you came to the south west. We get cast off trains, buses ... who knows what else!
I can’t bear much more of grass being straw. I’ve seen photos of 76 and it does look just like it. Roll on autumn!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Aug 12, 2018 22:40:15 GMT
Metropolitan types!  Not me Bolly, where I worked in the east end of London my home was considered to be "way out in the sticks". Not as far as you are granted, but still far enough out to be fairly rural. It is only a short walk to get to woods, fields, and lakes which is ideal for dog-walking. The south-west? We're no strangers to that neck of the woods (relatives in Ebford, Dawlish Warren, and Bovey Tracey) though we tend to go to Dorset and the IOW as they are more convenient. Sam. |
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Aug 12, 2018 22:43:54 GMT
Metropolitan types!  Not me Bolly, where I worked in the east end of London my home was considered to be "way out in the sticks". Not as far as you are granted, but still far enough out to be fairly rural. It is only a short walk to get to woods, fields, and lakes which is ideal for dog-walking. The south-west? We're no strangers to that neck of the woods (relatives in Ebford, Dawlish Warren, and Bovey Tracey) though we tend to go to Dorset and the IOW as they are more convenient. Sam. Really?? I’m about 10 minutes from Bovey! How bizarre. Everyone is metropolitan to us  mind you, since spending three years in Falmouth, Devon seems incredibly well-serviced and ‘happening’ ! |
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Post by Cartman on Aug 13, 2018 8:47:30 GMT
Last time I was in the South West was 1982, on a camp site at Dawlish, loved the area.
Hot summers are enjoyable when you are 15 or 16, later in life they can get on your nerves!
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Post by Steve Austin on Aug 13, 2018 16:12:31 GMT
later in life they can get on your nerves! Later in life everything gets on your nerves or is it just me  |
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Post by Batgirl on Jan 25, 2019 11:14:52 GMT
later in life they can get on your nerves! Later in life everything gets on your nerves or is it just me  It's just you...  No, it's true. Yesterday and today's weather in Melbourne gets on my nerves. Yep 33 degrees Celsius AT 11pm ! The 40 + Celsius day today was awful.  |
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 25, 2019 23:08:30 GMT
Thew Batgirl I thought it was hot in Melbourne when I was there in early 2008 seems like a scorcher in Aus at the moment.  |
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Jan 27, 2019 10:12:33 GMT
That’s horrific, Batgirl. I don’t know how you deal with that, at all. If we get a summer anything like last year’s, I’m emigrating to Lapland.
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mind you, since spending three years in Falmouth, Devon seems incredibly well-serviced and ‘happening’ !
