Yes, my dentist told me that when I first started going to him down here. However because I seem to get a lot of saliva tartar build up, after each six monthly checkup he gives me a prescription for a very strong Eludryl Bain de bouche only available on prescription to use twice a day for seven days and then throw it out. I asked last week about using a Paradontex mouth wash once per week and he was good with that idea but no more as it does what you say. He only recommends Paradontex blue label toothpaste too (Corsodyl in the UK and made by the same company Haleon, that make Sensodyne which he abhors)
Yes we do. La Jonquera for huge bottles and boxes of household detergents, plastic containers of real Sangria they load from a barrel and so on. SP95 was €1,45/litre recently but I don’t take my car as the family know the area very well. TVA is less down there as well compared to France. I saw on the local news people coming in coaches from Marseille for the day to stock up on big containers, many of them hotel owners.
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Talking of teeth hygiene, @David_Spardo/@Corona, although this is the weather thread, I give a tip regarding flossing. I have an annoying gap between two teeth where food gets jammed while chewing, and it hurts, and flossing comes to the rescue, but not the other day, the dispenser being empty. However, I’d bought a bunch of raffia which didn’t serve the purpose I’d bought it for, but in an emergency raffia flosses! If you have raffia that is, and need to floss, in this very hot weather.
It’s 31°C as I sit before my computer being swished by 2 fans. Feel OK, not too fussed by the heat but it’s hot enough to bring out the flying ants. Hate it when they land on my bare torso and crawl across the computer monitor screen. Bugger!
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Luxury!
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I’m not complaing about the heat except that it’s brought out the dreaded flying ants, and they will probably be swarming all over the windows tomorrow morning. I sympathise about how much hotter in may be elsewhere…
Have cancelled my trip to London tomorrow for niece’s wedding on Wednesday mainly because of weather. Not in the best of health right now, and the thought of being trapped on broken down train with no air conditioning isn’t pleasant. Especially when head of SNCF says they can’t guarantee that this won’t happen.
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Aww take care and get better soon!
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Hope that’s not an understatement.
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The temperature reached 41degC here today in the south of Deux-Sevres. I stayed indoors with a fridge full of cold drinks and the TV remote in hand. I ventured into the garden to water some plants and the light breeze felt like I was holding a hair dryer uncomfortably close to my face.
It’s 1.20am now and still 28degC. I’m lying awake, too warm for sleep despite the fan running at the end of my bed.
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Hi Shiba
we are about an hour north of you in the corner of 34 and 11.
where do you buy the Sangria from please ? if you dint mind me asking - do they supply the plastic containers too ? - we frequently visit friends in Roses, so pass that way.
thanks
I escaped from 60 years of Florida weather. This period is what Florida is like , or at least, can be like from May until November. When I was a kid there, it was only 3 months of this crap, now it is 6.
Though it does not get above 39 or 40 during the day typically, night temperatures from August to September never go below 28.
Of course, just about everyone has aircon running 24/7 . There’s no other way to survive. And the constant heat brings with it constant bugs, mold, mildew, fleas and all sorts of nasty things that thrive in the heat. I got serious about leaving ‘paradise’ when I had to spray insecticide weekly on the ceiling of the outside porches to kill the spiders who would constantly make webs and generally make the area under them disgusting and uninhabitable (for humans). Also, the constant battle with mud wasps . At times the ‘jungle’ was so bad I would have to resort to using Roundup (the real one- glyphosate) to control it. When I moved to Cholet I was just amazed at how little outside maintenance of that sort was needed- really nothing because the climate was cold enough to inhibit heat loving creatures and plants.
Just closed the upstairs windows and volets which are about to be blasted by the rising sun at 06.10. It is 28.8c upstairs and that’s as cool as it is going to get, I guess.
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We are in for the same again here today. Couldnt walk on the pool terrace, couldn’t hold the pool ladder. Panasonic TV playing up so the smaller upstairs set brought down to the lounge.
I believe the last lot was bought in Pertuis itself, I did not go on that foray as the family have a new car and with the child seats, you have to be a Lowry character to fit between them and I’m more telly tubby. They supply it in the plastic containers which are quite rigid and then we decant it into screw top bottles for rapid consumption and refrigerate it. It’s not cheap but is very strong. Family go to Roses a lot especially on Sundays for lunch this time of year but I tend to stay home as the in-laws are difficult and selfish folks and we don’t get along that well as they like to back stab everyone they meet and think they are a cut above, sad but true.
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The forecast here for today is 41degC, then 40degC tomorrow and 38degC on Thursday.
It’s too hot to do much, I have a lot I could be doing in the garden but it’s way too hot for any physical work (for me).
One thing that has been pleasing is the discovery that the sous-sol is noticeable cooler than the rest of the house - which is surprisingly as it’s not properly “sous sol”, the floor is only 30-40cm lower than the ground outside (2 steps) so the walls/windows are exposed to the sun.
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Yesterday on my way back from the supermarket, in 40°C weather, I saw a little boy in the village cyling like billyo uphill - oh to be young again!
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We never had sunscreen as kids either, just used to turn a lovely shade of brown without any sore skin or burns, must have been the good decent home cooked food and general living in the countryside with no pollution and whole days spent in the woods and common with sandwiches and drink so no need to go home for lunch and no parents around either.
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We have spent many holidays in Roses. At the weekend the restaurants are bulging, mostly with French. Thankfully, they have finished by 2 pm and the restaurants can take the Brits and then the Spanish.
We travelled up to Niort yesterday on our way to Saint Malo . Very grateful for the French attitude to dogs in eating places. We stopped twice and both times were able to bring Rona into the service station. In the first place they brought her a bowl of water. With the temperature at 39 when we started and over 40 along much of the motorway we could not have left her in the car, even in the shade. Bordeaux rocade at 6pm was almost empty! We kept up a steady 90kph - unheard of at that time of day ! We’re hiding in the hotel in the clim, until we have to carry on to the port at noon.
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My home office is 32.5C - not very comfortable. Normally we open up the windows, velux’s and some doors around 4am to let in all the cold air, then shut around 7am, but last night was a minimum of 26C and tonight another minimum of 27C, so there’s very little cool air to bring into the house!