Does anyone else struggle with knowing where they are on those maps? I mean, I know I’m in the middle bit somwhere but darned if I know exactly. I’ll have to try harder at identifying both my and neighbouring depts.
Sorry, I’m stuck inside because it’s too darned hot out and I’m frittering away time.
No problem for me, any further south and I’m over the border in Spain 20 mins down the A9
And I’m in the next dept up from you. 
I’m halfway down the red zone near the coastal estuaries’ area. Garden temp is 35°C, indoors downstairs 22°C and upstairs 29°C. Old stone built Charentais style house. OK indoors but a bit too hot in the garden, otherwise comfortable.
Here in 24 it is 20 in the pond but 39 in the air shade.
Put me off my stroke at one point and I went off course and collided with the side. It is impossible to get out along the sides because they are cut from rock covered with slippery liner. I panicked for a second or two and got a mouthful of water, so when I came back down had a right good mouthwash with Listerine.
I am off to Amazon soon, never had that happen before, to see if I can get some sturdy ropes to hang down the sides so at least in the future I can hang on long enough to take a breath.
It was 34 or 35 in the shade here in 14 but dropping a bit now.
If I were you I’d have a couple of lifebelts floating in there for emergencies if it’s too deep to stand up in.
A couple of big boat fenders would do, with grablines. Bon courage…
Knowing my luck they would be floating at the other end. 
No, 2 strong thick ropes along each side would do the trick, the ends have old but very strong lorry cargo straps across, the way I get in and out all the time. If only Jules did not show total hatred of water, he would be there like a shot, well of course, if he liked it he would be in there with me. 
We returned to the UK for various reasons, the increasingly hot summers was one of them.
According to this forecast the weather at our past location in France will top 40 degrees this week.
We’re surrendering and making a run to Formigal tomorrow. We’ve not really had a proper break this year so this feels like as good as excuse as any.
Oh dear. that’s more or less my area too, I can see another invention bubbling up, a floating tray so I can remain in the pond including at meal times.
Now if only I had trained Jules to do the cooking. 
25° here in coastal 14… and lots of climate refugees for the weekend ! But we won’t be privileged for much longer 
41 recorded here, a record according to the news. Same again tomorrow apparently but I suspect it will be hotter than that. It truly is unbearably hot, I’ll not be sleeping well I fear.
I lived in Brazil in the 70s and got used to hot nights when down on the coast in places like Rio. As mentioned elsewhere, one of the best ways of coping is to either lie on a damp towel, or have a cool shower and don’t dry off - go to bed still wet.
We’re fortunate in having an old stone house and we keep shutters and curtains drawn, don’t turn lights on, and (as others have said) open everything up first thing in the morning when it’s cooler. OH uses a fan in his study. I’ve started using the Arctic Cube fans (with ice cubes where you put the cold water) when I’m preparing supper - as much to keep the flies and mozzies at bay, but also gives a cooling breeze.
Maybe some of this might help?
Currently 36 in the uninsulated bedroom after a 38 day. AC on in the main bedroom, insulted well dropped temp from 29 to 25. Thats the highest temperature we have recorded in the main bedroom since insulation was fitted, its normally stable at a much lower temp. 41 promised for tomorrow.
Its your choice of course but mouth washes destroy the mouth microbiome and by doing so block production of nitrous oxide which helps dilate arteries and blood vessels. Even worse for those with heart conditios
Do you hop over to Spain for cheap petrol and groceries then?
Interesting, I’ll look that up. I use it to loosen up anything stuck between my teeth….
Yes Corona, thanks for that, found a recent independent scientific paper confirming what you say.
So what is the point of it then? I assume that you aren’t talking about swallowing it?
I use it to clean my teeth now, a vigorous swill all around the mouth, spit it out then an equally vigorous scrub with the brush, then rinse both with water.
Oh well, back to the Colgate then, unless you are going to tell me that that is dangerous too?
(Edit: A-oh it is if you allow any to go down inside, apparently better to just scrub with a good brush and then swill with water. 
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I am wondering now about living, because that causes death bearing in mind that it is impossible to die without being alive.
I’m also now wondering if it would have been better to have swallowed that wild water this afternoon.
I know David, so much of what is sold to us upsets something in our bodies. I just brush with bicarbonate of soda (think Arm and Hammer) but just bicarbonate. Recent dentistry at Kings in London the consultant did mention how clean my teath are. Mind you I dont eat much sugar or carbohydrates so I noticed less plaque myself. Modern living, its not a killer as people live longer but less healthy.
