Am 19.08.20 um 15:53 schrieb Steve Cottrell:
So the answer is to simply feel ill for a week and do nothing?
We live smack in the very centre of a city of one million, with outside walls about half a meter thick. Once this building has heated up, it stays hot day and night even after the heatwave has ended. Outside temperatures rarely fell below 25 deg c at night, during the last two weeks. Daytime highs were up to 37 c. The most important thing is to keep an eye on temperatures, inside and out. Open all windows as soon as it's cooler outside and close them as soon as the sun hits the facade. Use venetian blinds and bedsheets at the windows to keep the sun out. Take lukewarm, not cold, showers. Don't drink liters of ice-cold stuff straight from the fridge. A light T-shirt soaks up and evaporates sweat and keeps you cooler than none at all. Get up earlier than usual and use the cooler morning hours to do demanding work or stuff that requires lots of concentration. I'll be 66 in a few weeks, about a meter too short for my weight and not exactly fit, but still, we've just survived another heatwave doing our normal work without the help of air condtioning, the only exception being the A/C in the car during the weekly shopping run. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
