I do not get on well with hot weather.
And I don't notice that I'm not getting on with it. During the
last batch, it took me about three hours to go from "I am feeling far
too hot" to "hang on, I have a freezer that produces ice and chilled
water, I could have some of that".
This is why my email sig has, since 2003, included the local
temperature: if it's more than about 25°C I'm probably not making
sense. (Also, to be fair, because it was enjoyable to write something
that would fetch the local temperature.)
Yes, air conditioning is rare in the UK. Traditionally the problem
here has been excessively cold weather (but of course we are all asked
to believe that there's no such thing as climate change). And modern
house-building's main answer to either is to seal the house and allow
no airflow at all; for me at least I'd rather have slightly hotter
fresh air than slightly cooler stale air.
Other things that have been useful (reminder to Roger for next time
this happens):
having an open window, but the curtain closed behind it. Some people
swear by keeping windows and curtains closed until the outside air
has cooled off a bit, but I find that with a south-facing window
even the closed window plus blind plus curtain still radiates far
too much heat into the room to leave it comfortable.
moving to a room on the shady side of the house and taking advantage
of whatever breeze there may be. (I'd already set up ethernet to one
of the front rooms to run the video links for on-line RPG sessions.)
the great big "Aladdin" insulated mug that I bought on a trip to the
USA some time in the 1980s, which will hold plenty of water-and-ice
(I think it's 34 US floz, so just over a litre) cool enough that
there's still ice left after I've drunk the third fill of water. And
it doesn't drip condensation. Some people would use this for hot
coffee or fizzy drinks, I suppose.
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