Heat!

With our slew of 40+ degree days last week I thought it was high time we did our first "you know it's ... when ..." list for the blog.

NB: the following may or may not have been actual occurrences on our travels that may or may not have been told exactly how it was/exaggerated/completely made up for the sake of feeble attempts at being entertaining.  I'll let you separate fact from fiction.

So here goes.

You know it's hot when...

You don't even bother taking a towel with you to the shower.

Ice cream is just a bad idea.

You drink 6 litres of water a day and still don't feel the need to go to the toilet.

Your bread goes dry as you're eating it (that is, if it doesn't while you're making the sandwich!)

Food goes off in a day unless it's in some form of packaging, in the fridge or from McDonald's.  In which case it would probably outlast a nuclear holocaust.

Soup, coffee and curry just don't make any sense to you anymore.

Sunrise after a restless night

You have a restless night trying to sleep and decide the better hours for slumber are between midnight and 8AM (provided you're in the shade somewhere).

You have a restless night trying to sleep and go to 11 different stores in search of a battery-powered fan, only to discover they all sold out when the heat wave started.

You contemplate becoming a nudist coz clothes are just overrated.

Shopping Centres or the beach is the biggest decision of your day.

Setting up the fridge in the car park
while we chill in the Shopping Centre

Meat that has managed to stay cold overnight is cause for celebration.

It's still 40 degrees in the shade.


I'll leave the next proper update up to Robyn (whose contribution to this blog was indispensable).  She'll probably do it soon too, seeing as this post was ready to go up three days ago!

Have a fantastic week!  I can't believe it's February...

J.

Looks rainy and miserable?  We decided to brave the 39 degrees...