At last!! It rained last night/early this morning and feels so much fresher, more showers are forecast for the next few days and much lower temperatures. After about a month of relentless hot weather, I'd just about had enough of it, I really don't get on with prolonged periods of heat. Thank goodness I don't live somewhere that has heat all the time. When we went to live in Gibraltar for a couple of years (my dad was in the Forces), my mum got heatstroke the first time we went to the beach, and had to be rushed to hospital in an ambulance. I obviously get my lack of tolerance for hot weather from her.
We went out yesterday for a longish drive, to visit a place we've not been to for years, probably 10 years or more. Husband insisted he knew how to get there and said I didn't need to put the satnav on....yeah right. He got lost halfway there, basically did a big U-turn and we ended up nearly back home. So then he said it might be better if I put the satnav on! So what should have been a 45 min journey turned into 1.5 hours....by the time we'd looked at what we went there for and then came home, we'd been in the car for over 3 hours. As it was a boiling hot day again, and the car's air con doesn't work (it needs re-gassing apparently), we were both sweltering and like limp wet rags by the time we got home, although husband copes with hot weather much better than I do. Thank goodness I'd taken a bottle of water with us.
I'm not feeling at all well at the moment, I think it's probably mostly to do with the weather and not sleeping well, although I am under a lot of stress again right now. As well as feeling like a wet rag, I'm extremely tired and my guts are playing up again, it's one of those times when everything I eat upsets my stomach, it gets like that when I'm stressed. So I'm having a couple of days of not doing very much at all, other than basic housework - thankfully I've now got plenty of home-cooked ready meals in the freezer again so won't have to cook anything.
Sorry your stress factor is growing, this heat doesn't help much either. Hopefully a couple of days of R&R will help to get you back into a more relaxed mode. Take care, be kind to yourself.
ReplyDeleteOh, no. I've been known to do something similar but pre sat-nav days. Now I rely on mine and also on 'driving' the route beforehand using Google Maps. No wonder you were wiped out. xx
ReplyDeleteIt's rained here and is now a little cooler, which is fine by me. My husband refuses to use the Satnav, too. He'd rather rely on me trying to read the road map, then getting ratty with me when the roads don't have street signs so we go the wrong way! A couple of days doing nothing much sounds like just the ticket to help de-stress you. xx
ReplyDeleteI hate when something fun turns sour...feel better!
ReplyDeletehugs
Donna
I do hope you feel better very soon. So sorry that the trip ended up being a marathon.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.