[MargaretR]

I don't want to appear a spoil sport, but I am struggling to cope with this hot weather.

If you are in a two story house you will notice that upstairs rooms get hot due to the sun heating the roof and loft space.

All my rooms are 'upstairs'.

I bought a mobile aircon machine a few years ago. Until this hot spell I had only needed to use it for a few hours a day, on a handful of days each year.

I need a temperature between 22C - 24C, and humidity between 40% - 50%. Higher than that feels like breathing pea soup.

Yesterday and today I have needed to switch on the aircon at 6am and it is on constantly till 9pm! The noise of it, and the three dehumidifiers, did cause me to use some wax earplugs for a spell yesterday.

Another problem is that when the loft heats up, the water piping to my shower does too, and my electric shower shuts down if it is fed hot water.

So as I sit here sweating, stinking and gasping. I take solace in the fact that I have only two more weeks before I move and wont be living directly below a loft space, and will have a 'direct feed' shower. Breathing easy and keeping clean are struggles that you probably aren't needing to overcome.