Coping with Unusually Hot Days.

[Peter S]

Definitely FDR.

[jbeegoode]

FDR's inaugural address during the Great Depression.
Coulda sworn.....
Jbee

[Peter S]

Most good quotes are usually attributed to either Churchill or Shakespeare. Occasionally someone else comes up with something, but C or S still get the credit by default. It’s a hard world out there.

My favourite is Abraham Lincoln: “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

[jbeegoode]

They say that it's a "dry heat."

Yea, so what? So, is fire!!!
Jbee

[yeldew]

My favourite is Abraham Lincoln: “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

Oh, I missed that.  Lovely!
How far sighted he was, and so forward thinking!
Norman.

[jbeegoode]

My favourite is Abraham Lincoln: “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

Oh, I missed that.  Lovely!
How far sighted he was, and so forward thinking!
Norman.

AND Abraham Lincoln apparently had some integrity back in the day.

"There's a sucker born every minute" was attributed to several contemporaries of P.T. Barnum and himself. It has been an adapted political philosophy and then a political strategy ever since.
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

I heard about a winter's heat wave in parts of Europe recently. Was in your neck of the woods? Did anyone get out and about during that?
Jbee

[Fellsnude]

Best temperature in the English Lake District has been about 11C - and usually cloudy/wet if it's that mild, so no nudity in January for me!

Getting on with jobs (clothed) and ticking off the to-do list while dreaming of Lanzarote in March.....

[jbeegoode]

Lanzarote! Beach! Sand! Warm sun!

I love March here. I'll be recovering from a hernia operation and looking forward, actually chomping at the bit, to walk and walk and walk free in wide open spaces...without pain.

Looking forward to hearing about it.
Jbee

[Fellsnude]

Good luck with the hernia operation, JBee. I have one scheduled for February, but I'll believe it when I get the appointment. It should happen, because it's been contracted out to a private hospital by the National Health Service here. They do that sometimes to get the waiting lists down.

[jbeegoode]

Mine is February 15th. (If I don't completely freakout and run away )
I'll be thinking of you and I'll probably be here, letting my fingers do the walking and talking.
Jbee

[Fellsnude]

Shouldn't be anything to freak out about - I had the other side done in 2009 and it's always been fine, except a bit numb to start with. Rather like flying, the riskiest part is the drive to the hospital / airport.

[nuduke]

It's good news that you are having your hernia done, Jbee.  Don't be apprehensive - look forward to it.
Those I know that have had the operation have reported good recovery and cessation of discomfort.  However, there's always a recovery period. The thing is not to leave it.  The longer it goes on the more difficult for the surgeon to repair.
 
Sending strength and support*.


John


*I realised after I'd typed that sincerely offered sentiment that "strength and support" also sounds like the advertising material for a truss!! 
So don't expect anything in the post!!

[nuduke]

By the way, the title of this thread is giving me intense irritation as I shiver in my office.  I am not even naked, I have a bathrobe on to keep warm.
Unusually hot days?  Oh please!! Let's have some.


Actually the news at the end of the year was full of the fact that 2022 was the hottest year on record for the UK and the world.  Global warming or just a natural variation?  Probably a bit of both.  But the international incidences of lethally high temperatures, disastrous storms, droughts and floods and terrible forest fires (eh, what, Bob?), which we have had our share of in the relatively clement weather in the UK, cannot be a side effect of the UK having a 'nice summer' in future.  Let us hope the rain and sun go hand in hand more this year and in future, but that we continue to have a sunnier climate in the UK 'cos that means I can be naked more!!   
John

[jbeegoode]

2024, El Nino is supposed to be back. There are predictions that it, plus the warming will put us to new heights in climate disruption and higher than average average heat .

But El Nino has meant heat here, maybe more summer rains. It could be rotten cold winters up your way, the way the jet streams are goofy from the higher increases in Arctic temps...Have to wait and see.
 
 Anyway, a boost in the non-traditional weather variation in 2024.

As for the immediate rain on my parade:
I suspect that the operation will have me on liquid/roughage diet long enough to get off some extra weight like a fast. I've been putting it off for over three years, now. A couple of my friends didn't feel so good for a while after theirs. I don't know how I'll be, until I get there. Hopefully, my stoic resolve will help the mend no matter how it turns out. Thanks for the well wishes and support.
Jbee