Steamy nights!

[heathercobbett]

If you have trouble sleeping during this hot spell,fill your hot water bottle!

No,I haven't gone mad;fill it with iced water and take it to bed.....bliss!

[sundowner]

Or a better alternative - Go stay in your air-conditioned villa, can't think of a better excuse to get back to Florida.

[LiesaAnna]

Heather sounds like a great idea! maybe my hubby should have that tonight! we have a ceiling fan going every night and still he kicks the covers off but a cold water bottle sounds good!! we'll see[msnwink]

[emm]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by heathercobbett
If you have trouble sleeping during this hot spell,fill your hot water bottle!

No,I haven't gone mad;fill it with iced water and take it to bed.....bliss!
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Oh Heather..I thought it was just me who did that!!!! It really works, doesn't it?

[heathercobbett]

TIP NUMBER TWO (I wish I could say I thought it up,but just heard it on LBC

Place a bucket of ice in front of your fan to double the cooling effect.They also said sleep alone,so that is tip number 3

Emm, if you add crushed ice it beats the hottest night

[sundowner]

On a more serious note please be careful with children and fans in this weather. We lived in Cyprus for a while (many moons ago), but still remember two stories that haunt me.

One small baby caught pneumonia and sadly died after the parents had put him directly under the fan to keep him cool at night.

With the other little one, the parents had 'fixed' a fan to the wall over the little ones bed and it fell on him.

I am sure we are all much more sensible nowadays,but worth bearing in mind.

Anyway, enough of all that, let's find other fun ways to keep cool. One of my favourites would be a nice large gin and tonic.[beer] Or (if it's before 6 p.m. how about a nice large soft drink [drinkpepsi]

[LiesaAnna]

cold glass of lager would suit me down to the ground right now, but have had my quota for this week on saturday evening in the garden [msncool]

[heathercobbett]

We stayed in an impossibly hot hotel once and I soaked a towel in cold water and put it in my back

Worked a treat,but I had a rather wet bed to explain to the chambermaid.

Liesa, I think because mostlocal drivers work in the tourist industry they are more patient.Also the roads are wider and it is easier to find places (except last time when we went 50 miles north on the 27 instead of south;fortunately it could not be blamed on my navigation as I had not got involved with the instructions)

[Ray&Sarah]

Must try the hot water bottle idea, sounds good to me.[msnsmile]

[LiesaAnna]

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Liesa, I think because mostlocal drivers work in the tourist industry they are more patient.Also the roads are wider and it is easier to find places (except last time when we went 50 miles north on the 27 instead of south;fortunately it could not be blamed on my navigation as I had not got involved with the instructions)
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i'll show this to hubby when he comes in, i'll let him explian about the 1900 miles we did and that was mostly cause we got lost everytime we went out trying to find somewhere specific we ended up lost!!
and its usually my fault!![msnwink]