Well, I was in London all day. Docklands was like a sauna, with the hot wind making it then feel like the Sahara
Ach at 17C that's "taps aff" weather here in Scotland and as for wearing a polar fleece, bush shirt and beanie at 8C well is that no a bit wimpish?
Was baling some hay in an old tractor with no air con but a very serviceable glass cab. Nearly passed out. However I go on holiday to get this kind of weather so should hardly complain.
Make that a bush shirt & beanie at 18C. Then again I still do physical work when its 50C (in the shade), I can recall a couple of times when I've been sitting on a machine & thinking "gee I don't feel to well" check the thermometer & see it's in the low 60C's due to the engine. Getting down into 50C ambient is a big difference. It is bloody dangerous though, I've been lucky a few times, but once the temp gets above blood temp (37C) you do need to be careful.
I bet you're all feeling a thirst for a nice cold bitter Aussie beer right now?
Cheers!
Sharkey
Was reading this with interest until I came to the bit about Aussie beer, that's not beer, it looks like something a horse had passed through its kidneys, tastes pretty much like it too, at least the stuff we get over here.
Seriously don't you guys make a proper dark beer, not lager which you all seem to drink or at least that's the impression we get over here.
Sharkey, making hay for me is rather stressful. I have a small place so contractors are not terribly interested in coming out. Consequently I bought a mower and tedder in order to do as much as I can without needing them. But as I work away from the farm for most of the day I am very much at the mercy of the weather. You may have a degree of certainty over the weather whereas we have non. Anyway as a consequence of these 'excuses' I bale whenever it is dry enough to do so and have made some of the worst hay in the Uk over the last couple of years. Just to add to the excuses, I keep breaking the equipment. Know what you mean about the smell though.
I don't know anyone who drinks a lager (we just make if for export to you folks) some folks still drink draught beer & a few drink cold filtered, but its mostly bitter or dry beer everywhere.
Dark beers are generally drunk by the serious alcoholics, you know the ones who can't eat solids any more. I have know several blokes who have survived on nothing other than dark beer & yogurt for nearly a decade.
Sharkey
Well we never got the heatwave that was forecast yesterday, never got above 23 centigrade and today is dull and muggy, next few days set for the same muggy with thundery showers,
Not been much of a summer so far up here, started of cold and wet, now its warm and wet, last of the snow is still lingering on the hills, hope we get a blink of sun before the first snow arrives on the hills again, which is usually mid October.