What to do when it's so hot?

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So, normally I am outside from early doors to 5’ish doing stuff on the land, fixing stuff, building bits and bobs, cooking and so on but at the moment, it’s not possible to do anything past 13:00 because of the heat.

I know its only for another week or so but it’s so boring just hanging around, sighing, and being listless isn’t it?

It’s too hot to get the sewing machine out too and reading books it just not me during the day.

Question: what do you do after lunchtime and before preparing splendid dinner parties in the evening?

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This is why God invented Netflix.

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…hmm…I struggle to watch the telly before well into the evening…

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Siestas here so folks can go out till late without feeling tired and needing their bed.

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And SF

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Indoor jobs; currently painting over water leak stain on ceiling. Paperwork; there’s always some. And made 20 pots of jam over weekend.

I have a very long list of tasks to pick and choose from, and we don’t have netflix.

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Try to do Wordle
Have a cup of tea
Read SF
Try to do Letter Boxed
Do Strands
Do Tiles
Have another cup of tea
Open fridge door and stand in front of it longer than necessary - take out butter make toast
Read SF
Try to do Quordle
Divert to Revealed
Then Tightrope
Look for a good online jigsaw to do - give up
Read SF
Look at Wordle again (by now on line 4) Despair as I know Mark and Vero have already got it in 2 or 3
In more despair play Spider but don’t get it out
Open fridge and stand in front of it too long, take out hazelnut milk, put butter back which by now is melting
Have a chocolate drink with hazelnut milk (really too hot for it, but like the taste)
Read SF

All of this I can continue ad infinitum.

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Haha…love it!

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Do you have any hobbies that you pursue in the winter when the weather isn’t good for working outside @MikeyPotts ? I do genealogical research online…

Heat drains me of energy, even indoors so am rarely as virtuous as @JaneJones with catching up on inside jobs…

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Sitting the garden having a sun bathe in the UK so not as hot as most of you. Did gardening first though.

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Sleep, cats and me retire to coolest room in the house and have a nap…

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Well, I think everything is a hobby and in the short Winters here, I get the sewing machine out and do a ok job of making and repairing things :grin:

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Sounds good to me! Possible in the heat too?

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I find cutting fabric a bit messy in the heat but a well aimed fan does the trick.

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Listen to my podcast…

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The obvious thing would be to nap and become semi-nocturnal.

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I still have to work :sob:

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Me too. It’s both good and bad - this building runs at a constant 19 to 20 degrees. The bad is you have no idea what’s happening outside except when it rains hard, and I sometimes have to wear a jumper in the office, plus when the weather IS hot it’s a shock to the system venturing out after work. The good is that I don’t have to sweat hard all day, like I have done in other lab facilities.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes :beer::beer:

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I use our inflatable spa (unheated today sitting on 33c!!) as a plunge pool. Currently in it with a white wine spritzer. I have a crochet project I really need to finish which would be fine inside but the heat has stolen my mojo!

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