WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Cobra said:
Curiously its less than 50% humidity, apparently, here, but yes very sticky :(
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Machinery and cutting metals isn't helping me ... I really should find a works unit with windows :LOL:
 
Gav-canon said:
Good idea, there's a coolant tank on my machine :LOL:

Anything over 18 degs, I'm done ... I got sunburnt back in February :oops: :$
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Only laughed (as a like) because I'm much the same - sunny Winter's day? Factor 30 gets slapped on for golf! But at least it's only hands and face then - March onwards is arms as well. On holiday, I have to be especially nice to Mrs Nod (well, not really - I'm always that nice to her - honest!!!) so I can get my back slathered in factor 30, although I'm usually under a brolly or wearing a T-shirt (or swimming top [as used in Oz against jellyfish]). 3 days is a bottle of the stuff...

Windows and doors on the shady side of the house all open to get some air flowing through, windows and curtains on the sunny side closed until about 19:00 when the windows in the bedroom (West facing) get opened to refresh the air a bit. Plenty of iced drinks when possible and a head under the cold tap as necessary.
 
Nod said:
Only laughed (as a like) because I'm much the same - sunny Winter's day? Factor 30 gets slapped on for golf! But at least it's only hands and face then - March onwards is arms as well. On holiday, I have to be especially nice to Mrs Nod (well, not really - I'm always that nice to her - honest!!!) so I can get my back slathered in factor 30, although I'm usually under a brolly or wearing a T-shirt (or swimming top [as used in Oz against jellyfish]). 3 days is a bottle of the stuff...

Windows and doors on the shady side of the house all open to get some air flowing through, windows and curtains on the sunny side closed until about 19:00 when the windows in the bedroom (West facing) get opened to refresh the air a bit. Plenty of iced drinks when possible and a head under the cold tap as necessary.
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I just refuse to go out in the sun :LOL:

But if I have to go out.. factor 30+, long sleeve top, buff around my neck and a tilly hat .. everyone else is topless :LOL:
 
Nod said:
Only laughed (as a like) because I'm much the same - sunny Winter's day? Factor 30 gets slapped on for golf! But at least it's only hands and face then - March onwards is arms as well. On holiday, I have to be especially nice to Mrs Nod (well, not really - I'm always that nice to her - honest!!!) so I can get my back slathered in factor 30, although I'm usually under a brolly or wearing a T-shirt (or swimming top [as used in Oz against jellyfish]). 3 days is a bottle of the stuff...

Windows and doors on the shady side of the house all open to get some air flowing through, windows and curtains on the sunny side closed until about 19:00 when the windows in the bedroom (West facing) get opened to refresh the air a bit. Plenty of iced drinks when possible and a head under the cold tap as necessary.
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I do all that but I’ve only just realised that the N facing part faces the gravel drive which is like an oven since the house is single storey and the sun goes over the top -- also it’s sheltered from the prevailing southerly breezes.

The back garden though south facing has trees, bushes, grass and keeps cooler — even more so in the shade of course. I think the best plan would be to run the sprinkler on the grass but it already needs cutting :(.

I have a niece who swears by the sprinkler system she has installed on the roof to keep it moist — also helps with bush fires ;).
 
Gav-canon said:
But if I have to go out.. factor 30+,
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Calypso "Once A Day" factor 30 works for me. I get mine from Wilko and grab several bottles at a time so I don't run out! A decent application in the morning lasts all day and is waterproof - just don't towel yourself down vigorously after a swim and shower. Works as well as P20 but without the permanent staining that P20 leaves on pale clothes.

While I'm more blonde (OK, I'll admit it, grey/white!!!) these days, my beard (well, the bits that haven't faded!) still shows the ginge that I was as a kid.
 
Cobra said:
Thanks God we have the weather to moan about in the UK :D
I've had a couple of quick "thunder spot" type rain showers, the last couple of hours.
They don't last long though.
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I wouldn't be thanking a god re that peculiarity of the British..but you know me.....:D

I thought I'd be spared doing the flower-watering rounds this evening after we had the same sort of heavy raindrops that also came to nothing which was very annoying as we dashed out to the patio to get the brollies down, take the cushions off the chairs, bring the extension lead in and ,of course, the radio.
 
JohnC6 said:
I thought I'd be spared doing the flower-watering rounds this evening
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A few showers through the afternoon thunder spots mostly, but I still needed to water the Bonsai's

JohnC6 said:
I wouldn't be thanking a god re that peculiarity of the British..
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But God sends the rain to feed the flowers

:D
 
Cobra said:
A few showers through the afternoon thunder spots mostly, but I still needed to water the Bonsai's


But God sends the rain to feed the flowers

:D
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In which case he (He ? )needs someone to tell him (Him?) ...through prayer,I assume..about the eight countries currently suffering from severe drought. Not a regular drought but a severe one and tell him that we're ok here as we have water companies. On a more serious note it might surprise some that China is one of them. Sadly, for them, in this scenario, a godless country.
 
Rain here now :)

@Nod No worries about me needing sun cream after a swim, as I don't it ... normally sink, so gave up :LOL:

@JohnC6 it's sticky when your overalls ... wait.. I won't finish that ..:LOL:

@Cobra I'd stay your side of the M1 if I were you, it's not a pretty site here sometimes :LOL:
 
Gav-canon said:
I just refuse to go out in the sun :LOL:

But if I have to go out.. factor 30+, long sleeve top, buff around my neck and a tilly hat .. everyone else is topless :LOL:
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This made me think of my dad. He always wore a jacket, trousers and a shirt and it was only in his last years that he'd go out in public without a jacket. I remember him sweltering in a jacket and refusing to take it off. Oh, and he always carried waaay too much money, for emergencies.
 
JohnC6 said:
In which case he (He ? )needs someone to tell him (Him?) ...
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But I thought you knew that God is gender-less.
And now we also know who to blame for that as well as wars, plagues and pestilence.
:D

Gav-canon said:
I'd stay your side of the M1 if I were you, it's not a pretty site here sometimes :LOL:
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:ROFLMAO:

Well its down to mid now 20's so I guess I'd better go put a cardi on
:D
 
woof woof said:
This made me think of my dad. He always wore a jacket, trousers and a shirt and it was only in his last years that he'd go out in public without a jacket. I remember him sweltering in a jacket and refusing to take it off. Oh, and he always carried waaay too much money, for emergencies.
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Can never be too prepared ;)
 
Cobra said:
Well its down to mid now 20's so I guess I'd better go put a cardi on
:D
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You can laugh but the landlady's husband where we usually stay in Crete puts on a jacket when the temperature drops below 25°C in the evening - without using a thermometer (and he's always pretty much spot on as far as that point goes too!)
 
Cobra said:
But I thought you knew that God is gender-less.
And now we also know who to blame for that as well as wars, plagues and pestilence.
:D


:ROFLMAO:

Well its down to mid now 20's so I guess I'd better go put a cardi on
:D
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He can't be gender-less. He's said to be the father of a 1st century Jewish preacher-man called Jesus and his his great X 120,000 grandson now plays for Arsenal ..ex Manchester city .Gabriel Jesus whose parents,in honour of God/Jesus named him after one of God's angels... No doubt to ensure a place for him in Heaven.:D
 
JohnC6 said:
He can't be gender-less. He's said to be the father of a 1st century Jewish preacher-man called Jesus
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Immaculate conception, he can create life without the need for "Contact"
 
JohnC6 said:
You're lucky, reading the crime stats, I just feel nervous leaving the house. :)
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I go to some areas where people may feel unsafe and I got worried about wearing Swiss watches so I bought a cheap Chinese mechanical watch and that was a slippery slope as I now have more than one. I have been stared at, approached, asked what I'm taking pictures of (I think they thought I was from the social) called a P****. been followed and been accused of taking pictures of people when I hadn't but so far I've never had anything happen that I'd class as a crime. This could be because I'm fluent in naughty word and once got a job because "it's a bit rough here but you look like you can look after yourself."
 
It's not a WAMT post but as we've discussed the weather..at the moment..2115 we have a wonderful pinky/orange sky. To the east is black and to the west a large area of blue.
 
Quite often it's giving someone a helping hand that gets you into trouble of one kind or another.

Yesterday evening, I was putting out the green wheelie bin..garden waste.. when I saw that my next door but one neighbour had attacked his 10-15' palm tree that's infront of his lounge window and he doesn't have a green bin as he's grass at the front only..the back is astro-turf. He'd have had to go to the tip..a 12 mile round trip and a visit has to be booked,still. So, my bin was only half full as was our neighbour's inb etween so I set about, with a pair of shears, cutting up the leaves of those large pieces he'd sawn off. He then saw me and came out of his house and,together, we filled the two wheelie bins. What annoyed me ? Not thinking to wear long trousers rather than shorts and as a result getting some nasty, painful insect bites on my legs. I hadn't given a thought to it as I haven't experienced them in our garden. Of course, I have to acknowledge the fact that we were dismantling 'their' home.

I'm now taking Piriton every 4-5 hours and applying Anthisan cream :(
 
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woof woof said:
True. These days I feel nervous leaving the house without a phone and a credit card.
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The credit card is redundant if you have it in your phone, at least iPhone, I assume Android has similar function.
 
JohnC6 said:
Quite often it's giving someone a helping hand that gets you into trouble of one kind or another.

Yesterday evening, I was putting out the green wheelie bin..garden waste.. when I saw that my next door but one neighbour had attacked his 10-15' palm tree that's infront of his lounge window and he doesn't have a green bin as he's grass at the front only..the back is astro-turf. He'd have had to go to the tip..a 12 mile round trip and a visit has to be booked,still. So, my bin was only half full as was our neighbour's inb etween so I set about, with a pair of shears, cutting up the leaves of those large pieces he'd sawn off. He then saw me and came out of his house and,together, we filled the two wheelie bins. What annoyed me ? Not thinking to wear long trousers rather than shorts and as a result getting some nasty, painful insect bites on my legs. I hadn't given a thought to it as I haven't experienced them in our garden. Of course, I have to acknowledge the fact that we were dismantling 'their' home.

I'm now taking Piriton every 4-5 hours and applying Anthisan cream :(
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Do you find antihisan better than the hydrocortisone creams? I confess I’ve never tried antihisan.
 
sphexx said:
The credit card is redundant if you have it in your phone, at least iPhone, I assume Android has similar function.
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Until the phone can't be found, at which point all the eggs in the one basket are useless. Happened to a girl at our hotel last month - no money, no means of communication, no phone book, no internet access etc.. Might have helped if she had spoken any Greek or English but she'd been relying on Google translate...
 
Nod said:
Until the phone can't be found, at which point all the eggs in the one basket are useless. Happened to a girl at our hotel last month - no money, no means of communication, no phone book, no internet access etc.. Might have helped if she had spoken any Greek or English but she'd been relying on Google translate...
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I agree, redundancy is best — some cash too, things go wrong. I have a my Credit f debit cards are repeatedly being rejected online by the local taxi firm I use despite my having registered & used them before and they are still accepted in-car — and by everyone else!
 
sphexx said:
Do you find antihisan better than the hydrocortisone creams? I confess I’ve never tried antihisan.
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Anthisan is brilliant stuff! Mossies love me and this deals with the swelling and itching way better than anything else I have tried.
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Anthisan is brilliant stuff! Mossies love me and this deals with the swelling and itching way better than anything else I have tried.
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Thanks. Just had my first bite this am, mozzies must be reading this and getting in first.
 
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