Hot weather.

Padraig

Hi all, for those who enjoy it hoping your liking the summer sun. For those whose disabilities it irritates I hope your coping the best you can. With the cost of electric for fans bribing younger family members with sweets to wave a giant leaf maybe a cheaper option!

Joking aside. The MET Office has issued a severe heat weather warning for four days from this Thursday until Sunday. As we have already had the hottest day on record in U.K. they must be serious.

So hydrate(room temperature water is absorbed faster than cold but not as refreshing, sun tan lotion if out and maybe reschedule your day so that least activity during peak sun hours.

I’m using the cooking timer to remind me when pottering in garden to hydrate and take shade break. My pain physio says it apparently works for pacing your self too!🤣

P☘️💚

Alex_Alumni

Those are some great tips @Padraig thanks for sharing, and thank you for looking out for the community this evening

It's going to be a difficult few days, that's for sure, so we can all support each other, stay safe, and stay as cool as we can.

Cartini

woodbine said:

The Met office have issued an Amber warning for the next few days with temps.expected to hit the mid 30's, it's about time we had a decent summer.

I find the mid 30`s too warm.  My favourite weather is clear blue skies but absolutely freezing.  Each to their own though.

leeCal

Me too @Cartini

Padraig

@leeCal

Very similar to my Pagan path, worship Mother Earth, nature is my church, all beings are sentient and treat others as you would wish yourself treated. Just my simple way, everyone should have freedom to choose unless it harms them or others. I’m not big on rules, hierarchy and shows of wealth. But ultimately believe we are all praying to the same source no matter what denomination.

leeCal

Well said @Padraig

Sandy_123

Yeah same warning here for most this week. 30 plus temperatures.

Padraig

@leeCal
Do you follow a Buddhist path my friend?
I had the pleasure of doing a meditation session with a Buddhist nun last year. I really enjoyed it but thought there were only monks!

leeCal

I’m a mixture @Padraig, having been a Catholic for many years I became very interested in Buddhism and now I have a foot in both camps so to speak. I find what I don’t get from Catholicism I get from Buddhism and vice versa, it makes life quite interesting at times. My son calls me a zencatholic, ha ha.

Padraig

interesting @leeCal. I’m an escapee from strict Irish Roman Catholicism. I appreciate many elements of Buddhism. But my path is mainly Pagan with heavy Shamanic leaning. I like to think of all spiritual paths as a smorsesborg that we can pick and choose from. Why not? My loving son calls me barking mad. But I will take that. As I prefer it to being called ‘normal’ whatever that is!

leeCal

@Padraig said:
I like to think of all spiritual paths as a smorsesborg that we can pick and choose from. 

I think you’re right, certainly lots of religions have a lot in common, who could argue that compassion for example was not a common aim. Seeking happiness is also surely a central theme in the lives of religious and non religious people, the differences being in the detail really. 

Padraig

@leeCal. Indeed my friend, different paths to same destination. Though I have met those following a spiritual path to awakening don’t actually find the happiness/nirvana they were expecting. Instead they find an awareness and reality of life that they have to come to terms with…..hence I try and keep it as simple as possible.