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How are you all keeping cool tonight

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Sandy_123
Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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Here it is 28, lowest will be 24 overnight. I'm wondering how your all coping tonight? Obviously I'm not getting into bed with quilts, but lying on top. I've got the little windows open, not the bigger ones for safety. 
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  • Karen7788
    Karen7788 Scope Member Posts: 598 Pioneering
    edited July 2022
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    Hi @Sandy_123,
    We’ve had the curtains closed all day so the house is pretty cool. It was bad travelling home from work though, pretty unbearable, can’t use the bus and waiting ages for a taxi.
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  • bg844
    bg844 Community member Posts: 3,887 Disability Gamechanger
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    I’m in London, came down this morning to see a poorly relative so it was urgent but planned in a way. I’m in a Premier Inn and it’s lovely with nice and cool air con haha. Being a snob lol.
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    I was there last week @bg844, lucky you with air con.
    @Karen7788 hope you got home quick. 
    I've just come in from sitting in the garden, cooler out there then in, but we have lots of bat's, flying wonky and low and id freak out if 1 landed on me. 
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  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,621 Disability Gamechanger
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    I'm thinking of sleeping on the outdoor furniture, but sm says if I do she will pick a night in December when I have to do so again  B)
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  • Karen7788
    Karen7788 Scope Member Posts: 598 Pioneering
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    @Sandy_123,
    We had a bat flying around the living room last year, I got my son out of bed to let it out. Hope it doesn’t happen again.😊
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    Hahaha @woodbine I must say its tempting. 
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    Karen7788 said:
    @Sandy_123,
    We had a bat flying around the living room last year, I got my son out of bed to let it out. Hope it doesn’t happen again.😊
    Oh no, I'd hate that
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    edited July 2022
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    I’d sleep out if it wasn’t for the local wildlife, eg rats a foot long! There are slugs as well and they’re pretty big. Then there’s vampire bats 🦇 mosquitoes, mice 🐁 maybe a fox or two, cats everywhere you go, dogs barking. Think I’ll sleep inside 🤔 forgot the wererabbits and seagulls screeching at 4am.

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  • easy
    easy Scope Member Posts: 670 Pioneering
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    After all that leeCal I think it will be a sleepless night.
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    Lol @leeCal you for forgot the  hedgehogs, safer in doors I think
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  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,978 Disability Gamechanger
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    It sounds like the potentially one positive thing about being awake at 4 am @Teddybear12. Glad you managed to go back to sleep  :)
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  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 4,682 Disability Gamechanger
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    It was too hot last night, couldn't get the bedroom cool enough and even this morning it was 21 outside and still 30 in my room with the windows open. Much cooler downstairs. I've got all doors and windows open wide to try and air out the house before the rain and storm this afternoon. It's still humid here which isn't nice though. 
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    19 degrees at the moment out side, I've got all little windows open, to no effect. 🔥 
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  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,978 Disability Gamechanger
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    Just peaked 30 degrees here! The hottest it has been here so far this summer  :o Time to get the ice cream out  :D
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  • life
    life Community member Posts: 527 Pioneering
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    Aloe Vera gel and the fan on. Keeps me cool enough. Enjoying this weather hope everyone else is too 👍
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,986 Disability Gamechanger
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    Its getting a bit much now for me specially at night,  low 20s for me any day
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  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,978 Disability Gamechanger
    edited August 2022
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    Glad to hear you are finding aloe vera and the fan helpful @life. I tend to enjoy blue sky but not so much these temperatures  :)

    I know that feeling @Sandy_123. Hopefully, it will cool down soon! Take care of yourself in the meantime  :)  
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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    I keep my bedroom window open all the time and the door closed as the sun only shines on bedroom in morning when it isn't as strong tye room keeps cool so I can sleep 

    The lounge is total opposite often by mid evening the heat has trapped as no wind 
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  • Cartini
    Cartini Community member Posts: 1,108 Pioneering
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    In this weather: bedroom window, bedroom door and bathroom window open to allow a bit of airflow. As for me, birthday suit but not just during hot weather.
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