RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 I confess to having spent to much time keeping cooler on the beach Nick 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Living at the seaside, I prefer not to venture anywhere near the beach at times like these, its absolutely heaving with yobbos, screaming kids and members of both genders pouring out of extremly unsuitable skimpy clothing. Its also so humid that I feel like a fish. If you get my drift.... One wonders how pre-grouping gentry survived in their thick, restrictive dark clothing during the summer! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 Locked in the house. My wife phoned in yesterday and said she would be working at home so I was not allowed to go out at the hottest part of the day to post my son's birthday card. We have a room in the house which has had the doors shut all day and is considerably colder than anywhere else. Are we using it? Of course not. The temperature sensor on my shed in the garden which is away from the sun is only measuring 40.7degrees, down from 41.4. I am sure it is reading the inside temperature through the wooden walls. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Genuine shade air temperature maxed at 37, now dropped back to 36.5. I’ve just checked, and the man-cave layout/utility room is actually not too bad, despite one wall having direct sun all day, which shows the virtues of thick insulation and keeping vent to a trickle. The thermometer claims 18, but it’s definitely warmer than that, probably c25. Patio area is like a furnace, because it is In direct sun c0800-1500, so it is meaningless to cite a temperature. The ideal house would probably be rather like Hobbit-hole, or at least have yard-thick stone walls and tiny windows, set deeply, to give good smoothing of year-round temperature variations. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 It is not a good day to be layin g paving the only thing acting fast is the mortar drying and my sun hat is now soaking wet but not from rain Don 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I can’t seem to find a “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” emoji. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Rixon Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Genuine shade air temperature maxed at 37, now dropped back to 36.5. I’ve just checked, and the man-cave layout/utility room is actually not too bad, despite one wall having direct sun all day, which shows the virtues of thick insulation and keeping vent to a trickle. The thermometer claims 18, but it’s definitely warmer than that, probably c25. Patio area is like a furnace, because it is In direct sun c0800-1500, so it is meaningless to cite a temperature. The ideal house would probably be rather like Hobbit-hole, or at least have yard-thick stone walls and tiny windows, set deeply, to give good smoothing of year-round temperature variations. *smug mode* I'm currently in a cob cottage with yard-thick walls and smallish windows, and yes, it's quite comfortable thanks very much. This weather is the only good reason for owning a cob house. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 31 degrees here, and just sitting having a choc ice with all doors and windows open, but then: a, wife wanted help to put the stew in the oven, b, said she wanted another coat of paint applied to the ceiling above oven before tea (some time ago the drain out of the bath right above this corner sprang a leak and left a nasty damp patch) c, and I was daft enough to do it. wish I was with you, Jim. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 1 minute ago, Northroader said: 31 degrees here, and just sitting having a choc ice with all doors and windows open, but then: a, wife wanted help to put the stew in the oven, b, said she wanted another coat of paint applied to the ceiling above oven before tea (some time ago the drain out of the bath right above this corner sprang a leak and left a nasty damp patch) c, and I was daft enough to do it. wish I was with you, Jim. Stew? My wife got a bit upset once when I suggested that having salad in the middle of winter and stew in the middle of summer was the wrong way round. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 No, this is a Delia Smith special, Spanish Pork stew with chorizo, etc, etc, and I egged her on to tip the rest of the white wine into it, which you can’t do with Irish Stew, so it is sort of summer seasonal. Nick, that old postcard looks like Deal? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 10 minutes ago, Northroader said: No, this is a Delia Smith special, Spanish Pork stew with chorizo, etc, etc, and I egged her on to tip the rest of the white wine into it, which you can’t do with Irish Stew, so it is sort of summer seasonal. Nick, that old postcard looks like Deal? Indeed it is Deal which although over run by DFL at weekends is fairly sane during the week Nick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 Also a good day for washing the kitchen floor, between identifying old Midland carriages in photographs. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted July 25, 2019 Author Share Posted July 25, 2019 Hope no melting or buckling parishioners. On B-day +1 I have experienced a wave of hot air, drifting north from London. It could have been worse, I escaped a trip to the Smoke. Usually it's snow up here that stops me, but today it was sun down there that caused the meeting to be conducted via the 'phone. Instead I've enjoyed a balmy 29 degrees relieved by light breezes. I am going to have a break; Saturday at RailEx NE in Newcastle and then a few days visiting the Aged Ps. It has been very busy; I could do with a few days off. Saturday will see the repetition of Runs-and-Required and Edwardian's Men-Behaving-Badly Combo. You have been warned! 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Also a good day for washing the kitchen floor, between identifying old Midland carriages in photographs. Umm, that is what I thought, but it has taken ages to dry because it is so humid. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 18 degrees, grey skies and rain here. Exactly the weather I like. If it goes on a bit too long though the surrounding fields get flooded and the roads are closed, but with my 'never travel beyond your own village' mentality that doesn't bother me much. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NeilHB Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 A somewhat toasty 30 here on the south eastern corner of Derby - too hot for much other than sitting in front of the fan. Not much modelling completed recently (though I did build, paint and letter a wagon for a colleagues retirement present for tomorrow) as have mostly been packing boxes in readiness for the impending house move end of next week (hooray). Hopefully it will have cooled off by then a little! Off to the pub shortly for our monthly model railway group meeting 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 5 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Is everyone OK, or have some Members of the PC melted? I am alive! Was clearing out my Nan's house as she and my Alzheimer's-afflicted Grandad were moved into a nursing home this morning. Now eating a burger in the coolest room in my now mostly empty house. 3 hours ago, Hroth said: ...One wonders how pre-grouping gentry survived in their thick, restrictive dark clothing during the summer! Because we hadn't annihilated the climate as badly yet. 2 hours ago, Guy Rixon said: *smug mode* I'm currently in a cob cottage with yard-thick walls and smallish windows, and yes, it's quite comfortable thanks very much. This weather is the only good reason for owning a cob house. I can think of a few good reasons tbf 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Hroth said: One wonders how pre-grouping gentry survived in their thick, restrictive dark clothing during the summer! You're thinking about it wrong, this isn't merely English Summer weather is it? I've been getting along just fine in my cream linen suit and pith helmet. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 Your Summer is passing the point of being hotter than the Summer temperatures we usually get here in New Zealand. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Northroader said: wish I was with you, Jim. It's pretty hot here too.despite being at c940m Maurach was around 34° today. We were up at the top station of the Rofanseilbahn which, at 1840m, was a bit more pleasant. Some weather sites were forecasting thunder this evening, but it hasn't happened (yet). Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium nick_bastable Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2019 17 minutes ago, brack said: You're thinking about it wrong, this isn't merely English Summer weather is it? I've been getting along just fine in my cream linen suit and pith helmet. short Chinos I trust ? Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 “Where the sun beats down To the rage of man and beast The English garb Of the English sahib Merely gets a bit more creased” 4 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 You can tell the heat is addling peoples brains, there's an autographed photo of my aunt on ebay, going for 50 quid. Sheer, utter madness!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted July 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2019 4 hours ago, Hroth said: Living at the seaside, I prefer not to venture anywhere near the beach at times like these, its absolutely heaving with yobbos, screaming kids and members of both genders pouring out of extremly unsuitable skimpy clothing. Its also so humid that I feel like a fish. If you get my drift.... One wonders how pre-grouping gentry survived in their thick, restrictive dark clothing during the summer! 1. Late 19th century Ilfracombe - from a collection of published prints I inherited from my Grandfather. 2. By the 1920s they had worked out a cooler clothing regime. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Well, what do you expect at Llandudno? I blame lax post-war standards... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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