Too Hot!!

[scottie3158]

I'm not a fan of the heat either, and it hasn't helped that i have been moving house and humping boxes and furniture. The mid 20's is enough for me.

[Guest]

Thanks Pete, I'll have a look into magnesium. A quick check shows it might help my Restless Leg Syndrome too.

[BarryW]

I am no fan of the heat, yes its much too hot. I do have one nice cool room and it just happens to be my garage, where my modelling bench is.... Our house is 'upside down', garage and utility room on the ground floor, bedrooms in the middle and lounge/kitchen on the top floor. Even with all windows open, shutters closed, it is stifflingly hot in the lounge....

Usually if I spend more than an hour in the garage, at the bench or if I try popping back a second time in the day all I hear rom the missues is 'havent you spent enough time in there yet?' (She gets bored doing anything indoors after only half an hour...)

Now I can say....
'just popping into the garage to cool off darling'.................. She cannot object to that can she?

[Guest]

Interesting - my wife gets bad cramp if she has too much salt. Too much for her that is, we hardly use any. Our postgrad biochemist daughter suggested she take magnesium, either as a supplement or just some epsom salts in her bath, and that seems to help.
Pete

Thanks for that Pete, I get cramp in the calf , only in the left leg. Got some magnesium tablets so will try.

[Dave Ward]

Still waiting for these forecast thunderstorms - Yesterday, I watched the weather radar, and saw them skate by to the west & dump on Wales..........
Dave

[stillp]

Same here Dave. My garden needs some rain!
Pete

[Dave Ward]

Garden - ha! - that's why I live in a flat! too much maintenance, I bet Sisyphus was a gardener................
Dave

[stona]

Yesterday evening we had to SHUT all our doors and windows for a while as there was a massive fire at a plastic recycling works two/three of miles away. Luckily the enormous and quite impressive black cloud skirted by us (and was quite high by the time it got here) so we could open up again quite quickly.

The last thing you need to be doing is sealing up the house in weather like this!

Not my photo, and obviously a lot closer than we are.

[stillp]

Is that Tyseley Steve?
Pete

[stona]

Yep.
It was G W Webb Plastics that went up in flames. Luckily the plume blew the city side of us, more or less on a line from Tyseley sort of between the Coventry Road and Warwick Road, towards Edgbaston reservoir.
It missed us but close enough to get a bit of a smell, as did daughter number two in Kings Heath! Obviously many people were not so lucky.
It just so happens I have met my accountant on that industrial estate, where she does the accounts for another business, and it always looks like an accident waiting to happen. It's the third major fire there in the last year or so. One was at a garden furniture manufacturer, I can't remember the other.

[Guest]

The last thing you need to be doing is sealing up the house in weather like this!

It can be a good idea: close up your windows and doors to keep the heat out, then only open them when the outside temperature drops to near that indoors. As long as you can keep the sun off them, of course, else you’d only be cooking yourself inside

[Jack L]

Yes Dave, and as much tea & coffee as we can manage.

My brother (paramedic) advised me to up my salt intake after telling him I was suffering a lot from cramp. I need to be careful with that though. A family history of serious heart / circulatory issues means I ought to keep it down, or I'll join generations that have died in their mid 50's.

I'm hoping I've got more than a few years left in me lol

Andy instead of upping your table salt per say, go for these (or similar). They are active hydrators that contain the right sort of balance of electrolytes, without just firing you sodium levels up which will have the adverse effect. You will find them in the in the 'Health food' isle of most supermarkets or any pharmacy. These will stop the cramps, without putting your cardiovascular systems at risk.

[Jack L]

Thanks Pete, I'll have a look into magnesium. A quick check shows it might help my Restless Leg Syndrome too.

And I have googled RLS and just jumped for joy reading this!!! I occasionally (almost exclusively at night, or when I have been on a long flight) get what I can only describe as pulsing tingling down my left leg and into my foot. It drives me mad...not painful, just unbearable, and I have to clench/tense my lower leg/foot to relieve it. Will then get it again 5-10 mins later. For hours at a time. I have tried to explain it to people, doctors included, in the past, but no one has had a clue what I was on about. I think this sounds like it fits the bill perfectly! Just need to know how to get rid of it now!

[boatman]

HI JIM COULD be a touch of scaitca as i have this alot from a back injury
chris

[Guest]

Thanks Jack. I'm away on holiday for a few days (looking forward to the thunderstorms in a tent!) but will see if I can find something similar when I get back.

My RLS is a bit more pronounced, more of a physical twitching that can keep me awake for hours. Apparently I do it in my sleep too, Zoë will often tell me I've been running a marathon or disco dancing through the night :smiling5: