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Feeling the heat!
Topic Started: Jul 19 2006, 06:38 AM (232 Views)
Minxy
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How are you getting through the heatwave?

My kids haven't even seemed to bother about the heat, in fact we're having a constant battle to get Mark to take his coat off even in this heat.

It's a scorcher is it not!!!!
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:acorns47
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Jenny had her sports day yesterday afternoon when it was predicted to be 32 celcius! Daft or what. I thought about writing another one of my whinging letters but I held back. However, Jen returned home exhausted. She was grouchy all evening, had belly ache, headache, and loose motions twice. I was sure she would be off school today but she had histrionics at the thought of spending a day with her mum :lol: ok, at the thought of not being at school. This morning she wouldnt eat breakfast (not like Jen at all!) and had two more lots of loose motions. She was adamant she wasn't ill, and so shes going off to school as I write this. I am fully expecting a phone call to ask me to collect her :blink: I can only think it is either a bug brewing or most likely heat exhaustion. Even though they sat them under a tree during most of the afternoon, it was baking hot, and all that running around can't have done her any good.
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Minxy
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I don't even think they should be in school in these temperatures, how on earth can they be expected to concentrate?!

I'm off on a boat today with Mark as part of a school trip which should be cooler. Thankfully it's James's last day today as there are trips going out tomorrow and Friday is half day and he just gets in a tizzy which of course ultimately we have to deal with so we make a conscious decision every year to make it as easy on him, and us, as possible.
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I wonder how clued up the schools are about the fact the government have issued HEAT LEVELS 1 to 5, level 1 being the lowest, to help people protect themselves from going out in the heat and then collapsing/dying? Yesterday it was level 3, which is 32 degrees. Today is gonna be hotter. I'm sure Sue could have a field day about health and safety on this issue alone! I agree Mand, the kids shouldn't even be at school.......let alone have a bloomin sports day! :chair: Its for a reason that the Spanish population have a SIESTA in the afternoons! slp
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Well I spent yesterday afternoon lying starkers under the shade of the cherry tree. :lol: Only snag was FIL letting himself in with the emergency key he holds ;wall: (Note to self confiscate it in hot weather!) and wandering through looking for us.

The kids had to leg it over to him and distract him before he got close enough (phew) so that I could get my kaftan on pretty damn quick :lol:

But apart from that, with a few cool drinks, I survived nicely :D

Hairdressers this afternoon though, then a meeting, then wedding shopping - bet that'll be a different matter. :help:
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Adrian
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Heatwave??
Oh yeah I live in Orkney and it seems to have passed us by up here :D
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:acorns47
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As predicted, I have just collected Jenny from school. Trouble is she now needs amusing, despite feeling ill and not being able to settle on anything.

Interestingly, when I got to school there was a class of children boarding the mini bus....going to the BEACH! clap-ping I guess that answers my question whether schools pay any attention to to heat wave levels now in place to protect vulnerable people.
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What is the temp in the Orkneys then Adrian?
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Friends, if you have an electric fan, get an empty 2 litre pop bottle and two-thirds fill it with water and then place in freezer. When frozen, stand in front of the fan and it will apparently blow cold air on to you. I have a bottle in our freezer to try it out.
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:acorns47
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Just about to drink a 2 litre bottle of cider and fill it up with water. All the in the name of science, you understand! :blink: wine
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The onlyproblem I can see with this heat, or in fact any type of extreme weather is that in this country we're just not set up to deal with it! I was lucky enough to go to my nephew's school sports day in Australia. They have the cheek to call 28 degrees winter, but in the summer they reach 40 degrees. No-one calls for education to stop (what do working parents do?), they just make sure they're organised. Playgrounds have huge covered areas for shade, floppy hats are part of the uniform, motto is 'no hat - no play'. Packed lunches are all brought in in freezer boxes purchased at the school shop etc etc. At their sports day it was held in a field with no shade so school had set up gazebos (in house colours mind) for the kids to sit under, parents brought their own umbrellas, cold drinks available for all. A great time was had by all. In the school I work in, yes we are all hot, bothered, wilting and fed up but using the heat as an opportunity to teach the kids how to cope. Water is available all day but kids encouraged to bring their own water bottle in also. Assembly this morning was slip (on a T shirt) slop (on the suncream) slap (on a hat). At playtime there were various activities set up in the little shade we have, result: very few kids running around in full sun, mad adult (me) going around with a water sprayer having great fun squirting the kids, cooling them down, squeals of delight. Let's enjoy it while it lasts - god knows we get little enough of it!!
P.S. Not getting at anyone here, just trying to see the lining in the cloud.....
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Our kids broke up last week. James is now in Spain in temps of 40 degrees, and loving it.

We went to Thorpe Park today. I was appauled at the fact they have no shade covering the queues, thye drinks machines all broke down, and we came away at 3pm very hot and very fed up!

Nuff said!
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hev
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i absolutely detest this heat but then i moan when its cold as well!!ive been sweating all day,would love it to pour down with rain,it did for about 2 minutes earlier,i got all excited then it stopped!!!
mum to steven AS aged 12 / daughter aged 2

i have trouble coping so ignore me while i have a moan!!
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:acorns47
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Concerned rather than moaning, I think.... Lets not forget 14,800 deaths in France 2003 due to a Heatwave. Yes, obviously we need to adjust to these conditions because of climate change, but exercising in extreme heat (and I include sports days, which typically take place in the summer) is known to be bad. Its not merely a case of staying out of the sun. A child on a hot day is already hot and tired, but if you add taking part in multiple sports jmp during a heat wave or in the hottest part of the day to the equation, you have a recipe for both sun and HEAT exhaustion, or possibly worse. Ask yourself this, would an adult want to take part in sports in 32-36 degree conditions? I know I wouldn't. OK, rant over :lol:
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