Oh dearie me, the long-forecast heatwave has definitely descended on SE Essex this afternoon. It is HIDEOUSLY hot with extremely high humidity and I'm disgustingly hot and sticky. Top temps. are supposed to be around 30C and I'm feeling every single degree of that at the moment.
This morning was not too bad and I managed to get quite a lot done around the house. This afternoon has been a whole other ball game, and I've done very little apart from flap around with an experimental pasta, bacon and parmesan salad concoction for the evening meal (there are only so many days I can face lettuce, cucumber and tomato with 'something' on the side for my tea,) baked a few homemade rolls (hoping for a barbecue tomorrow evening) and sat around reading last weekend's Saturday Telegraph. Yes, the news was a bit stale by now but it was better than actually DOING something.
I've also just discovered that the nasty incident with a mouthful of orange squash going down the wrong way yesterday afternoon, which resulted in vast quantities of sticky liquid spraying everywhere in the study (mercifully missing P's chess book collection) has gummed up the hyphen key on the keyboard. Hmm, not sure how I'm going to fix that and I do like to use a hyphen key quite a lot!!
Far too hot here today as well. You were lucky you missed the chess book collection - they are sacred in our house as well...but then chess is my hubby's business ;-)
Posted by: Lorraine | 07/10/2010 at 08:03 PM
At 8.39 a.m precisely the temperature is 3.6 centigrade here in Dunedin NZ. How I envy you your heat
In the 7 years we've been here we've not had a single night when we could sleep with windows wide open covered with nothing but a sheet.
Fill your hottie with icey water, keep one in the fridge for those hot midnight moments, it might make life a little more comfy.
Might be a good idea to give the baking a miss too!
Posted by: Maureen | 07/10/2010 at 09:42 PM