Random sardonicism:
BBC Weather Centre tells me it's quite hot today. I feel pretty comfy - in fact I love the hot weather. How often do I get to chance to wear loose fitting skimpy cottony clothing, and also be properly awake?
I wonder if one reason I love the hot weather is I managed to be lucky enough to have gotten a good edumacashun on surviving hot weather, having lived in very hot places for the first half of my life. I only occasionally, in that period, had any air conditioning, but had to function in summer temperatures where 35 degrees was fairly common. In those places you take your ration of cold air pretty seriously, or it's fleeting.
So what we do is this: We keep the cold air in the space we occupy. If we're lucky enough to have an air conditioner, we hermetically seal the house, or try to. If anyone enters a room with aircon, they hear a chorus of "shut the door, the air conditioning's on!" If you don't have air conditioning, you borrow a bit of cool air from the sunrise. Leave the the windows and doors open until about 7 or 8 at the most, then shut everything, close the curtains, and keep it in. If you are home and want a bit of sunshine, you go outside.
Walking around East Croydon today, more than a few shop doors greeted me with a blast of cold air. That's right, pumping out the air conditioning hard enough for it to reach me outside. Nice little blast; it's very hot walking around the centre of Croydon in 30 degree heat. But I think I still prefer keeping small amounts of cool air indoors, and was glad to be back at my house, which, thankfully, was not only still cool, but had ice cold beer in the fridge.
BBC Weather Centre tells me it's quite hot today. I feel pretty comfy - in fact I love the hot weather. How often do I get to chance to wear loose fitting skimpy cottony clothing, and also be properly awake?
I wonder if one reason I love the hot weather is I managed to be lucky enough to have gotten a good edumacashun on surviving hot weather, having lived in very hot places for the first half of my life. I only occasionally, in that period, had any air conditioning, but had to function in summer temperatures where 35 degrees was fairly common. In those places you take your ration of cold air pretty seriously, or it's fleeting.
So what we do is this: We keep the cold air in the space we occupy. If we're lucky enough to have an air conditioner, we hermetically seal the house, or try to. If anyone enters a room with aircon, they hear a chorus of "shut the door, the air conditioning's on!" If you don't have air conditioning, you borrow a bit of cool air from the sunrise. Leave the the windows and doors open until about 7 or 8 at the most, then shut everything, close the curtains, and keep it in. If you are home and want a bit of sunshine, you go outside.
Walking around East Croydon today, more than a few shop doors greeted me with a blast of cold air. That's right, pumping out the air conditioning hard enough for it to reach me outside. Nice little blast; it's very hot walking around the centre of Croydon in 30 degree heat. But I think I still prefer keeping small amounts of cool air indoors, and was glad to be back at my house, which, thankfully, was not only still cool, but had ice cold beer in the fridge.
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