same thing.

Have a good week everybody! I am off to .

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room. I'm finely going to see the Doobie Brothers in Tampa Wed. , we will spend the night after the concert. In the morning we will go to the zoo, then back home.

Have fun at the concert and zoo Connie!

Folgers Breakfast Blend, Scottish Breakfast tea and bottled Fiji water in the Break Room.
Happy Monday everyone

Goodmorning/Night Everyone May you all have a cheerful pleasant day and be safe Boomers

Good morning, Danish, Donuts, and Bagels in the Break Room.

Dang air conditioning decided to break down yesterday. Upper 80's with high humidity this week. Repairman supposed to come this afternoon but something tells me we're going to need a new unit. I am dripping and sticking to everything. Ugh!!!!

How awful, oldbroad. We're having 95°F today with 102°F forecast for the weekend. Blech...

I see that the UK is sweltering with record-breaking heat.

Naturally, now that I have air-conditioning, our weather is cold and gloomy.

We are indeed enduring cruel heat here in the U.K.
Worst in the SE but pretty horrendous everywhere else too 😱

Heat makes me quite ill and so many years ago I had a small air con unit installed on the landing.
I close all windows and curtains and open all internal doors - and that helps a lot during heat waves.
(Air con is not common in the U.K. We wouldn't normally need it !!)

But the temperatures this week have been some of the highest if not THE highest ever recorded here.
And I am SO looking forward to a return to normal 🙄

I read about that Mad, and have been thinking about you!

We have had temperatures in the high 90s to 100 for over a week now, and this is looking to continue indefinitely.

However, it is a dry heat and not humid - and that makes all the difference. Having lived in New York City, I understand such things. I remember stepping out on the balcony of our 16th floor apartment and in less than a minute we were dripping.

I am sure glad you have that air con unit, Mad.

I hope your A/C issue is resolved soon, ob.

Take care, everyone.

Marian, I do not like high temperatures even if they are dry. Those just parch your throat and eyes and whatever. I used to really prefer winter but I can't take the real cold anymore either. I'm expecting the guy shortly.

Oh, I don't like high temperatures that are dry either, oldbroad - I should have made that more clear - just saying that dry heat for me is the lesser of two evils.

Let us know how it goes with the A/C guy.

Marian, I lived in Toronto during my youth. Toronto weather is similar to NY weather. I remember those appalling 95-degree days with awful humidity. When I moved out to B I told my Ontario relatives that I'd only ever visit in October, which is the nicest month.

Well, the fan motor or something isn't working and the cost to replace that is around $1,300 and then there may be other stuff wrong with it that they supposedly can't tell until they replace that. The unit is about 20 years old so we're having it replaced tomorrow.

Marian and oldbroad ....

Sorry, I didn't read far enough back in this thread on my last flying visit - but I hope you are both managing in the heat AND that you have fully working air con very soon, oldbroad

We are supposed to get possible thunder storms and lots of rain next, here, which should lower the temperature and would suit me just fine

same thing.

Hagatha, you certainly know whereof I speak, then. I drove through Ontario years ago.

Oldbroad, sorry about the expense, but hopefully you will be back up and running tomorrow!

The rain sounds lovely, Mad - I hope it happens. I can't believe what I am seeing for the temperatures in London. Years ago I was in London in May and it was certainly nothing even remotely like this.

Marian, just to be clear, that $1,300 is if we fixed it + maybe additional charges. We're having the whole unit replaced at $6,300, which is supposedly a discount. We have pretty low income here but that is still worth it to me anyway! According to my thermostat it's 90 degrees in here right now.

That is a very large expense, oldbroad, but I understand that it really isn't optional but more like a dire necessity. You can always economize somewhere else. And hopefully it will last another twenty years.

I think you've got your priorities right, oldbroad. A health asset like air conditioning could be vital !!

High temperatures are a health hazard, especially for us older people. Air conditioning is essential.

I agree. And I think we all might as well get used to this as our new "normal" with less hot summers being the exception rather than the other way around. The more I read about the rising temps, the scarier it gets.

Definitely. In decades gone by we'd come up here to our little holiday condo on the water, and it was never so hot that we felt we needed air conditioning. Even our old house in North Burnaby was relatively cool until about 12 years ago, when we installed a one-room heat pump so we'd have one place in the house that was comfortable for us an d our long-haired Rachel. Now that old house must be unbearable.