It's HOT HOT HOT Friday!

angieh · 09-07-2010, 12:01 PM

Hello peeps! Hope everyone will be able to stay cool today. Wonder what the highest temperature will be? Our poor furry friends will suffer today unless they can find somewhere shady and cool.

Have a good day all and enjoy the heat if you can!

MrsH · 09-07-2010, 12:16 PM

Fortunately it's never too hot in our house providing we keep the dining-room curtains closed as the sun can be a bit fierce in there. I've got lots of windows and the back door open so there's a good airflow, and I've got the fan on in the sitting-room. The cats are in the garden under a conifer with a bowl of water for them and the dog is lying on the slate hearth or the kitchen tiles depending on where I am.

I hope everyone's enjoying the day.

angieh · 09-07-2010, 01:26 PM

OH is getting ready to go and play golf!!!! He says that it is lashing down with rain at the Scottish Open golf near Glasgow.

I expect a very tired hubby home later. I do hope he doesn't melt!

alexgirl73 · 09-07-2010, 01:30 PM

It's hot here too, but a lovely breeze blowing as well, so giving some relief lol. Not a lot planned for today, just some light housework and bits and bobs to do

yola · 09-07-2010, 01:42 PM

Have been and watered the allotment - it's very parched down there. However the 6ft bamboo screening I put up around back of the greenhouse to shield the tomatoes from the worst of the sun seems to be working; their leaves are lush green now rather than bleached yellow.

Just been to the garden centre for more seeds and a buddlea so I can begin to create some shading.

Have a vet appointment with Fifi as the wound on her foot has gone black

It might just be the scab but the fact that the skin around it is pink and shiny is a worry AND she's got bald patches at the base of her tail AND she's really not happy and isn't moving from her hidey-hole to the side of the dishwasher. So best to get her seen.

It's blisteringly hot so I might go out and sit under the parasol. OH will be late back as he's got to a meeting in Nottinghamshire so I will water the front garden later and hae a nice salad dinner with all the bits I've just picked at the allotment

PoshPuss · 09-07-2010, 02:14 PM

Glad you are all keeping cool in the south & east but here out west it's thick grey cloud and not hot but warm and sticky. Horrible weather for ironing in but needs must, so I ploughed on this morning.

Yola, I can almost taste those ripening tomatoes, yummy

good idea the bamboo screen. Hope Fifi is ok and the wound is healing and not necrotic

, Angie, Mrs H, and Alex, keep those kitties cool

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angieh · 09-07-2010, 02:32 PM

Kizzy was really sweet this morning as I was hanging out the towels on the line. She came and lay in my shadow and did her "girlie thing" lying on her back and asking for her tummy to be rubbed. I started fanning her with a towel and she had a blissful look on her face. Poor love, she does have such a thick coat.

dandysmom · 09-07-2010, 04:23 PM

How hot is hot? It's cooling down a bit here, presently only 29 C (80 F), mostly cloudy and a bit humid but a breeze makes it comfortable. Rain finally due tonight and tomorrow, much needed. No errands, a lie in and pottering.

That's worrying about Fifi's paw, praying it will be OK; good to hear the tomatoes are doing well. Salad on a hot night is a good meal!. Leia sends sympathy to her thick coated cousin Kizzy! She too is uncomfortable in the heat, but dislikes being fanned.... hope Ian arrives home un-melted, Angie. Men and their golf

Hope all can stay cool and comfortable.

angieh · 09-07-2010, 04:28 PM

How hot is hot? A good question Eileen. We have had our first heat warning issued by the Met Office today. They may of course just be panicking because they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Currently here it is only 26 and there is a nice breeze. Not as hot as it was this morning. I expect further south east it may be hotter and hotter in the cities. We'll have to wait to find out what the temperature got to elsewhere in the country. Not as hot certainly as you have had it recently in Washington DC!

dandysmom · 09-07-2010, 04:37 PM

Yes, the cities are heat islands. When we made our 39 C it was cooler in the suburbs. England rarely gets that hot, I believe.....???

Anyhow, stay cool, remember the awful Winter!

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