RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 Another useful tip is to look at your urine when de-ballasting, if it is fairly clear you are probably adequately hydrated, if it gets dark and brackish and stinks you're probably not drinking enough. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Roddy Angus said: It would be very unusual for anyone to need additional salt, there should be more than enough salt in your diet for normal needs. Yes, it's usually more vinegar that I need on my chips. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 Ugh! I go back to work tomorrow after 2 weeks off! No air conditioning where I work... I've not experienced 40 deg weather in my life (I hate hot weather so avoid going to Spain in Summer) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 Always amusing when people start complaining about lack of air conditioning, I was brought up in the countryside, just open a window and stop moaning... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, Welly said: Ugh! I go back to work tomorrow after 2 weeks off! No air conditioning where I work... I've not experienced 40 deg weather in my life (I hate hot weather so avoid going to Spain in Summer) Make sure you have plenty of water. Went to Malta in 1988 when they were experiencing a heatwave. We had ten days of 40°C +. Had similar temperatures in Bali and Kalymnos. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 17 minutes ago, John M Upton said: Always amusing when people start complaining about lack of air conditioning, I was brought up in the countryside, just open a window and stop moaning... Bit tricky when the windows don't open... 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, John M Upton said: Always amusing when people start complaining about lack of air conditioning, I was brought up in the countryside, just open a window and stop moaning... Here's a Sydney joke for you. How do you tell when a British Airways plane lands at Sydney airport. They turn the engines off and the whining continues! 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Just now, kevinlms said: Here's a Sydney joke for you. How do you tell when a British Airways plane lands at Sydney airport. They turn the engines off and the whining continues! I wanted to give you a funny and an agree for that one! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2022 In the warehouse I used to manage it was when people stopped moaning you knew a problem was serious… 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 23 minutes ago, John M Upton said: Always amusing when people start complaining about lack of air conditioning, I was brought up in the countryside, just open a window and stop moaning... So your Train doesn't have AC then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 hours ago, KeithHC said: No matter what all stay well drink plenty and put off those jobs if you can until Wednesday. What, I'll have to do the jobs on Wednesday that I normally manage to put off for a lot longer than that?! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 Not really looking forward to work next week, the aircon in the office hasn't been all that effective the last time the weather was warm and this will be quite a bit warmer. Although we've been promised free ice lollies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 2mmMark Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2022 Something to consider in the next couple of day is how hot is your computer running. A couple of days ago, I cleaned the accumulated dust & fluff out of my main desktop pc, including the fins of the cpu cooler. A surprising amount accumulates in there. There's a useful Windows utility you can download called "Speedfan" which gives you temperature readouts of your system, cpu, hard disks and the ambient temperature inside the unit. Here's a screen grab of the laptop I'm using to type this now. It might be wise to shut down your PC during the hottest part of the day or alternatively, put it in the breeze from an external fan. Beware USB fans. It's easy to overload your USB system inadvertantly. Homebase have some nice small desktop USB fans. I've got one but I run it from a spare USB mains charger. It's dead handy on the workbench, just enough cooling breeze but not enough to blow your parts about (ooer Matron!) Another thing to do is to have a look at the back of your fridge or freezer. The cooling coils would most likely benefit from being cleaned. I found this out the hard way on Friday! Mark 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 2mmMark Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 17, 2022 34 minutes ago, JZ said: Make sure you have plenty of water. Went to Malta in 1988 when they were experiencing a heatwave. We had ten days of 40°C +. Had similar temperatures in Bali and Kalymnos. Was that August 1988? We were also in Malta then and it was possible the worst holiday we ever had. We got switched hotels from St. Pauls to Sliema which was hugely overcrowded. Shame as we'd had a couple of very good holidays there previously. Made up our minds never to go back. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 25 minutes ago, 2mmMark said: Something to consider in the next couple of day is how hot is your computer running. A couple of days ago, I cleaned the accumulated dust & fluff out of my main desktop pc, including the fins of the cpu cooler. A surprising amount accumulates in there. There's a useful Windows utility you can download called "Speedfan" which gives you temperature readouts of your system, cpu, hard disks and the ambient temperature inside the unit. Here's a screen grab of the laptop I'm using to type this now. It might be wise to shut down your PC during the hottest part of the day or alternatively, put it in the breeze from an external fan. Beware USB fans. It's easy to overload your USB system inadvertantly. Homebase have some nice small desktop USB fans. I've got one but I run it from a spare USB mains charger. It's dead handy on the workbench, just enough cooling breeze but not enough to blow your parts about (ooer Matron!) Another thing to do is to have a look at the back of your fridge or freezer. The cooling coils would most likely benefit from being cleaned. I found this out the hard way on Friday! Mark Something to also consider is not running a laptop on your lap or table cloth covered table. Both have a tendency to cover over ventilation on the bottom. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Jonboy said: In the warehouse I used to manage it was when people stopped moaning you knew a problem was serious… That's a common one in management, it's when things go quiet it's time to start worrying. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 59 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: So your Train doesn't have AC then? Fan in the cabs are too noisy so I always turn it off and open the window. Growing up in the rural countryside we had none of this air conditioning nonsense, that was for soft City folk... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 48 minutes ago, 2mmMark said: Was that August 1988? We were also in Malta then and it was possible the worst holiday we ever had. We got switched hotels from St. Pauls to Sliema which was hugely overcrowded. Shame as we'd had a couple of very good holidays there previously. Made up our minds never to go back. It was June/July and our hotel was on the front, Tower Road, right on the border of Sliema/St Julians. Loved it and would like to go back sometime. Edited July 17, 2022 by JZ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 People have different sensitivities to heat and humidity, and if air conditioning or heating is available to make conditions tolerable in a way that isn't possible by dressing for the season then my advice is to use it. I am in a country where the temperature is always high 20's - mid 30's during the day and with very high humidity. With the sun it can feel much hotter and in a nice day it can feel brutal. Despite the fact these conditions are normal and you do acclimatize very few here would want to get rid of air conditioning. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, John M Upton said: Fan in the cabs are too noisy so I always turn it off and open the window. Growing up in the rural countryside we had none of this air conditioning nonsense, that was for soft City folk... Don't have aircon in the house, I rely on fans in the bedroom and office/workshop and ceiling fans in the living room. I do have aircon in the railway shed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hal Nail Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 hours ago, John M Upton said: I was brought up in the countryside, just open a window and stop moaning... did you have neighbours with their inevitable builders, latest must have power tools, music, children and bbq smoke in the countryside, or were you blissfully unawhere how unpleasant the rest of the population is? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, John M Upton said: Fan in the cabs are too noisy so I always turn it off and open the window. Growing up in the rural countryside we had none of this air conditioning nonsense, that was for soft City folk... Fly screens are essential in homes/offices in Australia. Do your locos have fly screens? :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted July 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Fly screens are essential in homes/offices in Australia. Do your locos have fly screens? :-) Don't need fly screens, we have all the fly's plastered across the front which makes the yellow panels look like a currant bun... Just popped into Chichester for some shopping and still amazed to see old people dressed in full coat, overcoats and hats Sunday Best!!! How do they do it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 28 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Fly screens are essential in homes/offices in Australia. Yup, we had those on our home in Florida. Without those, everyone inside was a mozzie's supper. Keeping the roaches out was a different problem... These damp (sub)tropical places have an awful lot of wildlife. Most of it seems either to want to eat you or else eat your food. Sometimes both. Yours, Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 27 minutes ago, John M Upton said: How do they do it? A certain level of insanity helps... Reminds me of a January in Florida - we were all heading into the mall, dressed in T shirts and shorts, since it was about 75F and sunny. We were confronted by a lady dressed in a fur coat. I think she was from New York or similar cold place up north and since it was January, fur coats were mandatory. She must have been toasting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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