- Grass green is a distant memory
- Our Shetland members measure temperatures in double figures
- The bin men come an hour earlier (so 1pm, not 2)
- Your unpainted figures become 'soft'.
- Cheese sandwiches in your lunch box become toasties by 11sies
- Hosepipe use carries a prision sentence
- The washing-up bowl evaporates before you can pour it on the roses
- The cat and dog are fighting over the coldest floor in the house
- The figure you were repainting strips itself.
- Nobby is evicted from his home in the mess icemaker.
- The casting dwarves don't need the furnace
- Dave takes off his thick winter coat
- Leon isn't the only member of staff working when it's quiet at night
- Techno is allowed to mention his previous career as an ice sculptor on RMS Titanic
Carry it on...
Very funny :D
34 degrees at 9pm ! Fed up of this already...
;D ;D ;D
- Paint dries on the brush, so you end up with what is basically a coloured pencil.
- You find interesting uses for ice
- The dog refuses to go out for a walk
- Ice Cream vans have red crosses painted on them
- You dare not walk outside barefoot
- That smell of frying bacon comes from the factor 50 on your forehead
- The old game of "it's lava" becomes real when you try to cross a tarmac road
- You have to wrap your hand in your shirt before you can touch the front door handle
- When manually cranking the chain to open the roller shutter for some fresh air makes you hotter than you were before.
- When the nice insulated office you built turns into a fully enclosed heat trap instead.
- When the shop is strangely the coolest room in the building but you can't print the orders from there...
Lads I feel for you..last year it was our turn...locally we got up to 45-46...the town of Lytton up to 49-50..set the heat record then had a fast moving fire go through town with 2-3 min warning to get out...burned the whole place down... a few days ago they got another fire started on the other side of the river..its grown quickly. Wishing things cool down quickly & no fires start.
Feeling really sorry for the crew manning the moulding machines.
Bob / Vancouver
Blimey!
Imi has just added:
When you do an A level fine art mock, and your oil paint is sweating out of the tubes!
You can't touch the steering wheel of your car without getting third degree burns.
You can fry an egg on the bonnet of your car.
Birds start walking instead of flying.
Tradesmen finish work for the day at 11am.
Vallejo paint comes out of the paint bottle like a volcano.
You are glad you paid $5k for air conditioning.
Spiders die and reptiles appear.
Welcome to Australian weather guys.
Well where ever you are take care in the heat, stay inside and stay hydrated...... could you send some heat our way? 10degrees C with the wind chill factor and wind gusts to 100+ kph expected today with rain later..... just another soggy Wellington winter day🙂
06:00 and it's 22 degrees C
Quote- When the nice insulated office you built turns into a fully enclosed heat trap instead.
I know that feeling! #:-S
When the paint dries on the palette before you can get it on the brush.
Quote from: pierre the shy on 19 July 2022, 12:57:36 AM10degrees C with the wind chill factor and wind gusts to 100+ kph expected today with rain later.
Ahh, you just can't beat Wellington on a good day.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 19 July 2022, 05:08:21 AM06:00 and it's 22 degrees C
I wish. I could sleep at 22. We got down to 25 by midnight but climbing to 26 at 04.30 and then beyond. Still we will be back to moaning about the cold and wet before much longer and we are saving lots of ££ by not flying abroad to enjoy these temps. :)
You know its hot when
the bin men arrive at 6am to make doubly sure you are awake
the postman looked so frazzled we gave him a cold drink
the utility room with the boiler and all the electrics is the coolest room. (normally hottest)
you are dressed for the beach indoors all day
you laugh back at folks who sniggered when you put up both blinds and curtains on the same windows
Quote10degrees C with the wind chill factor and wind gusts to 100+ kph expected today with rain later..... just another soggy Wellington winter day🙂
Well, you are living in the upside down.
Yes, I have just started watching Stranger Things. Only five years behind everyone else, as usual.
Quote from: Raider4 on 19 July 2022, 08:59:53 AMWell, you are living in the upside down.
Yes, I have just started watching Stranger Things. Only five years behind everyone else, as usual.
Often wonder how they hang on down there ! :d
I still shudder to think of the school teacher I once heard explaining to a group of kids that gravity was an effect of the rotation of the planet. And he was a Brit, btw.
We got in the car to come to work today and the temperature read 45°C...! It dropped a little as we drove to work but it's still at 38°C outside now. We'll have to get a themometer and see what it is in the office here.
QuoteWe got in the car to come to work today and the temperature read 45°C...! It dropped a little as we drove to work but it's still at 38°C outside now. We'll have to get a themometer and see what it is in the office here.
This is not a day for working up on your tin roof.
Your Tesco order has only one missing item ... the ice cream.
... or, in my case, the strawberries.
Was looking forward to a nice bowl of cool strawbs with some freshly milled black pepper. :(
Quote from: fsn on 19 July 2022, 02:36:23 PMYour Tesco order has only one missing item ... the ice cream.
The roof is finally getting fixed at the end of this month, it's only been 8 months...
QuoteVallejo paint comes out of the paint bottle like a volcano.
And I thought that was just me when I opened my Vallejo Gold earlier.
When you have to use a conversion chart to
make most of the posts meaningful.
Checking in at only 29.5 here
Ah! The joys of Centiheight and Fahrengrade.
Oddly, it was between 29 and 30 degrees in my dining area today, bet I was warmer than you Bill. :)
Countries that use Farenheiht:
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(from Wikipedia).
I feel for you all in Europe, zero degree in Melbourne, just taking ice off car!! ABC had a weather report from London, highlighting the issues you face in Britain. Take care :-X
Quote from: pbeccas on 18 July 2022, 11:03:14 PMWelcome to Australian weather guys.
Dreaming of Aussie temperatures right now - my son lives in Melbourne and will be lucky to see 14c tomorrow. It is so hot where I live near Cambridge that my wet palete dried out.
Had highs of 38*C here in the car, but my 1876 house has been a relatively benign 22-24*C.
Everything back to normal tomorrow, ~19*C forecast, so two days is a bit of a novelty really despite all the furour (which sells more newspapers and TV adds).
How the UK will cope when we get a block of 7 days like this, followed by two weeks of 10*C with floods, followed by another week of 40*C......
Vacated Waiting Room plastic chairs have Damp patches from sweaty nethers...Euw! :o
Here in Northumberland, UK, Tuesday seemed slightly less hot than Monday... until evening, when felt a lot hotter! Ended up padding around in underpants... haven't felt need for that in maybe 12 years + !
Wednesday 11am... light overcast and felt COOL! :) 12.30 and HOT SUN! :(
Annoying thing is that opening doors / windows...and you get Flies or Moths. I would hate to exist in a country that had serious Flies or Mozzies!
@Raider4
Because (https://tenor.com/view/tevye-tradition-fiddler-on-the-roof-chaim-topol-gif-16576991)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 19 July 2022, 08:08:33 PMAh! The joys of Centiheight and Fahrengrade.
Oddly, it was between 29 and 30 degrees in my dining area today, bet I was warmer than you Bill. :)
We have A/C Mike ;)
Quote from: d_Guy on 20 July 2022, 02:03:28 PMWe have A/C Mike ;)
So you are one of the peps responsible for the temps X_X X_X
QuoteSo you are one of the peps responsible for the temps X_X X_X
In my house, yes. :-*
QuoteSo you are one of the peps responsible for the temps X_X X_X
Yep, those autocannon generate a whole heap of heat .... or possibly HEAT :)
Quote from: John Cook on 19 July 2022, 09:49:50 PMDreaming of Aussie temperatures right now - my son lives in Melbourne and will be lucky to see 14c tomorrow. It is so hot where I live near Cambridge that my wet palete dried out.
I'm in Perth, we are getting drowned in rain at the moment. We swapped climates.
Quote from: pbeccas on 22 July 2022, 01:45:43 PMI'm in Perth, we are getting drowned in rain at the moment. We swapped climates.
At least it'll put the fires out....