16 deg C and cloudy at 7 a.m., but it will be sunny and 26 deg. later. Same again tomorrow. Rain forecast and much cooler from Sunday onwards. P.H.E.W. Glad I got all that washing done yesterday. I will stay inside today so I can get on with sewing, as the pollen levels are off the scale too.
For those of you with insane heat, I don't know how you survive. It could never be too hot for Keith - he was in the desert in Oman with the Army, at a place called Shisr, and said it was 140 deg. F (60 deg C) in the shade - and there wasn't any shade. They had to stay indoors during the hottest part of the day. There was an oasis there once, and it was on a trading route. Since 2000 it has been the UNESCO World Heritage Site Land of Frankincense. It has connections with the fabled lost city of Ubar, but Wikipedia thinks it was in the land of Ubar, rather than being the site of the city. Keith loved it there. Me - I get hot quickly and cold quickly. Not ideal! I've just staggered out with the immense Dorling Kindersley World Atlas we bought in The Works on a Scarborough holiday one year (reduced from £75 to £25.) It was always on the coffee table at Ynyswen, so we could look up anywhere we wanted to enquire about and of course, has come into use again today.
I was too hot to eat yesterday. I bought a chicken salad sandwich for lunch, and just had one half, and the other half at teatime. My freezer is full so I took out a chicken and chickpea curry to defrost in the fridge, to make room for a similar size tub of ice-cream. Not exactly curry weather though! What do you folk who live in really hot places eat in such temps? Do you live on salad?
Right, breakfast time - granola and strawberries, heavy on the strawberries as they were Aldi wonky ones - wonky meaning eat them quick, and they didn't travel well and have rub marks on which had to be cut off. I should have spent a few pence more on the good ones.
I thought this was a Mullein (didn't check leaves too closely to see if they were felty). Anyway, looking at the buds it is clearly a yellowy Hollyhock. Then I looked more closely at a smaller "Mullein" at the end of the path and found that was too probably a Hollyhock. I've just dug it up (melting now) , needing a screwdriver to get to the bottom of its long tap root, and it is planted and watered with the other perennials I put in this morning. I like free plants.
Has anyone else ordered heating oil in case there is a full blown war in the Middle East? I thought I could hear Keith at my elbow, telling me to top up just in case. Indeed, it has already gone up in price - last Friday, and again on Tuesday, so I didn't get my usual summer bargain but at least I will have a winter's worth of oil if I am frugal with it.
Still overcast but hot and muggy. I couldn't get parked in town for love or money, and lots of holiday makers in the Groe car park too, so I couldn't park and look at the fruit and veg stall there. I ended up parked by the school, and walked up to Boots for my prescription, and stopping to buy two lovely Nectarines, got given a punnet of use-'em-up-quick strawberries for nowt. No complaints. Upstairs to sew now.
Hi, it's Shirley in Perth OZ here where we get summer temps between 35 and 42C thank goodness for air con I say. When I was first married 54yrs ago we had very little money we didn't even have a fan, even now with the air con we eat a lot of salad, the regular salad things but also rice salad potato salad and lots of others at different times plus a protein that cooks quickly. I only put the oven on if I absolutely must. If I want to bake a cake I start first thing in the morning around 7am.
ReplyDeleteIt's winter here now, today it is 20c so not too bad but tomorrow it will be 17c and sometimes gets as low as 12 or 13c during the day and 2c at night that is really cold for us of course over east it can get much colder than that. Hope that's not too much information.
Your garden looks lovely, you can't beat an english garden it's the abundance of rain which we lack and are only allowed to put reticulation twice a week and hand water in between. No reticulation after June 1st. because of winter rains but nothing like the amount of yours.
Blimey - you have my sympathies but I guess you are used to it up to a degree, and thank heavens for air con. Thanks for telling me about how you live/eat as it's pretty different to me here - who CAN face a curry in mid-summer and still bake and cook if I want. Yesterday was an exception though.
DeleteI love my garden and 9/10 of it is from scratch - only the shrubs on the bank were already here.
We certainly have an abundance of rain - as Ilona found out last Thurs/Friday when she visited Wales on holiday. Everywhere is always so green.
It looks a lovely area with all those roses to sit and be quiet. The cats enjoy it as well, wonder if they can smell flower perfumes? This house is cold, faces North, but in this hot weather it is a relief.
ReplyDeleteIt is, when it's not too hot. We face South! Thick stone walls though, so that keeps the worst of the heat at bay and the kitchen is always cool. I've been out bunging plants in this morning. Ones I'd bought and had procrastinated over planting as I had to clear an area first. Got them all in and thoroughly watered now.
ReplyDeleteI've never wondered if they can smell flower perfumes - I imagine they can because they have such a good sense of smell.
I'm not good in the heat, but my Dad revelled in it and because he was olive skinned would go a beautiful brown. Granddaughter has inherited his colouring and she also tans easily and loves the sun. I've pegged bedding and bath mats out, standing in my pj's to do it. Off later to take Stepmother out for a turn round TK Maxx and probably a sit down in Costa for a cold drink. Xx
ReplyDeleteI'm on the iced water, which is the only thing cooling me down. I've just dug up a baby Hollyhock at the end of the path - didn't realize it was one until I saw the flowers on the "Mullein" (I thought) a few feet away and realized it was another Hollyhock. Photo tomorrow of big brother.
DeleteKeith tanned well too and I have a skin which tans well but it's always just a t-shirt tan! You did well to do the washing early - it will soon be dry. Enjoy TK-Maxx for me - my nearest one is Carmarthen now I think. A cold drink in Costa sounds like a good plan.
It's hot here too. I am in the Southeastern USA. Lots of salads here too, though I do have a roast in the crockpot.
ReplyDeleteYes, the heat is miserable, Bovey, but we're lucky to have central air-conditioning so it's relatively cool in the house....which is where I stay. A "heat watch" was just issued for our area. I make sure all my little wildlife creatures have fresh cool water outside and some seed to eat...and then I scurry back in the house. Try to keep cool in whatever way works best for you. ~Andrea xoxo
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