Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 August 2022, 09:31:31 AMLoathsome though the stuff is, Coke is quite good at settling nausea, and has sugar content.

That is a useful tip.  I had never thought of it.  I lived on a honey, lemon, soluble aspirin and Scotch drink when I was feeling rough, though that wasn't in this weather.  It could be chilled I suppose.  It tasted pretty good but I'm not sure what effect it had on what ailed me.  Come to think of it, when I was 'up the jungle' in similar temperatures, the army's solution to almost everything was tea made with condensed milk and lots of sugar.  It had a remarkable reviving effect when you were really knackered.   

Quote from: T13A on 14 August 2022, 05:57:07 PMnot sure why they still use F?

For the same reason they still use gallons.  Centigrade and litres are communist

Just take it easy, lots of fluids and paracetamol, and normal food intake if you can manage it.  At least the jabs will lesson the symptoms.  It took my 37 year old son 7 days to fully recover.

We've had gentle rain on and off for a good few hours now, which has freshened things up a tad. I don't think I've been so happy to see the rain!

Same here - it is just now. Mind you one of the laptops did say we had a thunder storm bout an hour ago...

That's weird Steve. We're about ten miles away from you as the crow flies, across the river and while it's a tad cooler, we haven't had a drop of rain. Sunny with fluffy blue clouds at the mo.

Poured on and off all day here in Edinburgh. OK for a hosepipe still.

Never seen anyone in my house succumb to covid, maybe we were lucky. We did wash our hands a lot.

Nothing today.  Light rain promised for tomorrow here in the east.

Looks like it's happening!
https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

Rain stopped, then it got very, very humid and now is cooling down a bit. Inside the house still warm and stuffy, despite all the windows being open all day. No breeze to clear the air through. God I'm looking forward to it being cool to get a good nights sleep in!

We had a little flurry about 7pm ish but only half-hour or so and definitely not the storm/monsoon we were promised!

06.15 Tuesday light rain. But now have a bandaged hand as result of trying to treat GSD's Bad Guts....after clearing up indoor mess and "I'm Sorry!" sick! Life is SO good! 

After the endless summer, we now have days of showers. So, the washing is building up and Mrs. R4 is Not Happy.

And I am forbidding the usual tactic of putting the heating on just to dry the washing, because a) it's still hot & stuffy indoors, and b) price of gas nowadays.

Thunder on past two evenings - piccies even made evening weather report on the Beeb lightening over the pier head. Very wet on both evenings. Just now dry and sunney

Here in Edinburgh we had a touch of thunder, no obvious lightning yesterday afternoon.

Today we are having an absolute monsoon downpour. There's a river running down each side of the street and a third running across the street from side to side.

QuoteHere in Edinburgh we had a touch of thunder, no obvious lightning yesterday afternoon.

Today we are having an absolute monsoon downpour. There's a river running down each side of the street and a third running across the street from side to side.

Can confirm I am expecting a large boat full of animals, with a beardy guy in a robe, to drift past at any moment