Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, people.
My, it was hot today! My home helper got the washing out for me, then helped me cook. He does the heavy lifting and stirribf while I throw ingredients together. We had two pots on the boil, I then leave them to simmer for a few more hours.
After he left, difficult child 3 & I headed for the beach. We don't normally go to the beach in the worst heat of the day (it's asking for trouble, and sunburn) but first, we didn't have the time to plan to go later, and second, we're fairly tanned now and as a result, fairly safe from a sunburn if we're careful to not overdo our exposure.
I've been wearing contact lenses to swim, but forgot - I had been cutting up fresh chillies for the curry I cooked. You know what happens when you handle contact lenses when you still have chilli on your hands?
It wasn't too bad, and washing my face in the ocean helped. We were there for about an hour, I talked to a young woman who was trying to set up her new beach tent, with a toddler and infant out in the blazing sun. I do wonder at the sanity of some people - why go to the beach in a blazing Australian summer, at midday, with a baby? And THIS beach especially, it's potentially dangerous especially if you don't know it. It's not a beach for non-swimmers. I talked to her, discovered they have just moved into the area, I helped her put up her tent (and kept the baby shaded in the process). She slathered the kids with sunscreen and seemed to think that would be 100% protection for the rest of the day. But she wasn't alone - another three people arrived with babies, plus a handful of other people.
difficult child 3 was playing with his skim board, he was learning the benefits of applying a good board wax to it.
We were there for about an hour and it was great to cool off, but on such a hot day we were already sweating by the time we got back home. A quick shower, some lunch and then time to head back out. By this time we could see the clouds forming for the expected storms. I was glad I'd taken the (now dry) washing off the line. We collected mother in law and headed city-wards for the appointment with the optometrist.
We'd planned to stop along the way at a store that sells nuts and dried fruit, mother in law wanted supplies to make easy child's wedding cake. But we knew we wouldn't have time on the way there, we hoped we could do it on the way back.
All the way in, we got cloudbursts, sometimes heavy, with huge raindrops. Because it had ben such a hot day this meant tat the first rains evaporated quickly and we drove through swirling mists as the steam rose from the roads.
The appointments took the rest of the afternoon. I hadn't expected it to take two hours! The optometrist wanted to do more, but we were out of time. We have to go back for a nuber of reasons. rather worryingly, difficult child 3's intra-ocular pressure is high, they need to examine him further to make sure there is no damage in his eyes. I have to ring them in the morning to make appointments for next week. They want to do a dilation on my eyes also, to check for retinal detachment (I've had symptoms for 30 years, slowly getting worse). I'm supposed to have this test done every year, and it's been nearly two (I'm naughty, I ignored my reminder letter).
We got away with minutes to spare, got to the fruit and nut place just in time. mother in law bought her cake ingredients, I stocked up on my magic muesli ingredients.
We tried to have the windows down to cool off, but the rain kept breaking out again. Things were still hot but now steamy, it's a time when your clothes cling damply to you and you can't get cool. But by the time we got home, back to the mild ocean breeze, the breeze had strengthened to a gale and the rain had blown away for a time.
The temperatures today in our area hit 37 C (body heat - 98.6 F) but more than 1 km from the ocean, the temperatiures climbed much higher, to over 43 C (nearly 110 F).
Tomorrow will be dry mostly, much cooler (24 C, or 75 F). We're discussing the possibility of going up to visit easy child & BF1 over the weekend. Very much spur of the moment. We've got a lot of wdding planning to do, but it's a bit too late to call easy child now, it's after 9.30 pm.
Oh well... difficult child 1 & daughter in law are visiting tomorrow, to work on their thank you cards. It will be good to see them.
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
My, it was hot today! My home helper got the washing out for me, then helped me cook. He does the heavy lifting and stirribf while I throw ingredients together. We had two pots on the boil, I then leave them to simmer for a few more hours.
After he left, difficult child 3 & I headed for the beach. We don't normally go to the beach in the worst heat of the day (it's asking for trouble, and sunburn) but first, we didn't have the time to plan to go later, and second, we're fairly tanned now and as a result, fairly safe from a sunburn if we're careful to not overdo our exposure.
I've been wearing contact lenses to swim, but forgot - I had been cutting up fresh chillies for the curry I cooked. You know what happens when you handle contact lenses when you still have chilli on your hands?
It wasn't too bad, and washing my face in the ocean helped. We were there for about an hour, I talked to a young woman who was trying to set up her new beach tent, with a toddler and infant out in the blazing sun. I do wonder at the sanity of some people - why go to the beach in a blazing Australian summer, at midday, with a baby? And THIS beach especially, it's potentially dangerous especially if you don't know it. It's not a beach for non-swimmers. I talked to her, discovered they have just moved into the area, I helped her put up her tent (and kept the baby shaded in the process). She slathered the kids with sunscreen and seemed to think that would be 100% protection for the rest of the day. But she wasn't alone - another three people arrived with babies, plus a handful of other people.
difficult child 3 was playing with his skim board, he was learning the benefits of applying a good board wax to it.
We were there for about an hour and it was great to cool off, but on such a hot day we were already sweating by the time we got back home. A quick shower, some lunch and then time to head back out. By this time we could see the clouds forming for the expected storms. I was glad I'd taken the (now dry) washing off the line. We collected mother in law and headed city-wards for the appointment with the optometrist.
We'd planned to stop along the way at a store that sells nuts and dried fruit, mother in law wanted supplies to make easy child's wedding cake. But we knew we wouldn't have time on the way there, we hoped we could do it on the way back.
All the way in, we got cloudbursts, sometimes heavy, with huge raindrops. Because it had ben such a hot day this meant tat the first rains evaporated quickly and we drove through swirling mists as the steam rose from the roads.
The appointments took the rest of the afternoon. I hadn't expected it to take two hours! The optometrist wanted to do more, but we were out of time. We have to go back for a nuber of reasons. rather worryingly, difficult child 3's intra-ocular pressure is high, they need to examine him further to make sure there is no damage in his eyes. I have to ring them in the morning to make appointments for next week. They want to do a dilation on my eyes also, to check for retinal detachment (I've had symptoms for 30 years, slowly getting worse). I'm supposed to have this test done every year, and it's been nearly two (I'm naughty, I ignored my reminder letter).
We got away with minutes to spare, got to the fruit and nut place just in time. mother in law bought her cake ingredients, I stocked up on my magic muesli ingredients.
We tried to have the windows down to cool off, but the rain kept breaking out again. Things were still hot but now steamy, it's a time when your clothes cling damply to you and you can't get cool. But by the time we got home, back to the mild ocean breeze, the breeze had strengthened to a gale and the rain had blown away for a time.
The temperatures today in our area hit 37 C (body heat - 98.6 F) but more than 1 km from the ocean, the temperatiures climbed much higher, to over 43 C (nearly 110 F).
Tomorrow will be dry mostly, much cooler (24 C, or 75 F). We're discussing the possibility of going up to visit easy child & BF1 over the weekend. Very much spur of the moment. We've got a lot of wdding planning to do, but it's a bit too late to call easy child now, it's after 9.30 pm.
Oh well... difficult child 1 & daughter in law are visiting tomorrow, to work on their thank you cards. It will be good to see them.
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg