My gym isn't air conditioned - well... its got one blower which isn't very efficient and you only get the benefit if you use one particular treadmill - on the rest of the equipment you just swelter.

I'm going swimming again today. Yesterday they opened all the outside doors and, after the crowd thinned out, it was lovely. I might just go from 12.30 to 1.30.

I'm so bright... I just had a hot chocolate!

It's a white chocolate options one and it's been sitting on my desk for a few days so I thought, "I'm not too hot, I'll give it a go!"

I'm sweating like a horse now and I haven't moved out of my chair!

I went to my air conditioned gym this morning and worked my butt off with a combo of cardio and lifting. I had a caramel frappacino on the way into work! It was lovely!

I'm really struggling for summer clothes, am in jeans today!With a white lace top. Shhhhh don't tell anyone but the top is underwear :shock: I got five singlets in Oz and they're too pretty to hide under clothes!

I keep trolling Ebay but there ain't much out there at present, everyone too hot and busy to sit at their puters and sell clothes!

2 Frus - you are a nut!!

lol @ frus....

crazy dasiy !

Karma!!


That's what it is! Karma, plain and simple!

There was me laughing at 2 Frus for having a HOT chocolate. What do I do? I Swallow half a tube of lip gloss! It has got so runny in this heat. I had a 'durgle' of it hanging from my lip and concentrating on stopping it, some slipped off my lips and into my mouth! It does not taste very nice. Ugh!

Wonder how many syns in that???!

Ewwwwwwwwww @ lippy and choccie!

Just back from swimming - better than yesterday - everyone must have thought that there'd be loads of people there, so nobody bothered going. There was only me and about half a dozen others. Cor - one of the men who sits waiting for people to drown has got the most AMAZING pair of suntanned, muscular legs - in fact most of him is pretty gorgeous - from the neck down!

The downside of being nice and cool and clean was having to ride my bicycle home The farmers round and about are harvesting and there are clouds of these little black thunderbugs all of which like pale or light colours. By the time I got home my pale pink tank top was smothered - yuck.

Ky, you're right - it IS to hot to list stuff on eBay. I'm just doing auto re-lists, nothing new. Its too hot to set up the cameras and do all that kind of racing round.

Just had phone call from DH - our lovely dinner for two is now going to be a not so nice dinner for six! I've decided to raid my stock for something to wear tonight - I've had my eye on a lovely chocolate colour Monsoon silk top which I couldn't justify keeping - but seeing as it has now been for sale twice and hasn't sold, I'm giving it a new home in my wardrobe.

I went to the gym at lunch just to cool off! I'm so glad I went - I did chest and abs and tried a pull-up or two!!! I can bend my arms anyway, which is progress from just hanging like a limp noodle!

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cropped pool pic.jpg OK, lets see if this works, Ladies, if you're feeling hot and sweaty in that blistering British heat, hop in the pool with me. We can lounge around or do water aerobics or swim, or sit on the bench part and have the jets on for a lovely back massage....

Thanks for the info Veg, I knew you'd be there for me.

Stay cool all....

I'll have a gin and slim line tonic please as I sit by the pool!

That better not be your pool I'm dying of the heat! I can't take it! I want rain and a pool.

just a quick question... do all the new skinnies find the summer better..... for losing the weight not so hot etc...

or if you dont like it is it coz you just dont like it hot.. no matter how skinny you got?


my skin is fair... i think i will hate it anyway.... i burn like a crisp in the usn.. it doesnt take long either.. thats with factor 50! lol .... i balme my dad... my baby bro (hes 6!) is proper ginger.. !...

It is my pool, ten steps out of the back door and I can jump right in...Ky, I have the gin and tonic ready luv, come on over.

Lou, I don't know about being slimmer or lighter making it cooler, but I was about thirty pounds heavier when we first lived here, and I was dying with the temps, but now I love the temps and feel freezing when it goes down to the sixties in the winter...but they say you aclimbatize here, so don't know if it's weight related or not, sorry.

I've just taken my hubby to the airport, he was home for five days and it was wonderful. Now I have three weeks and we'll be having the fun of getting packed up again and starting heading to Cape Cod

Have a good one all...keep cool.

I'm a lot more comfortable in the heat this year - I've been wandering round all day wondering what all the fuss is about! Partly though it's because I've just come back from spending the days sunbathing in Spain, and also because I'm wearing far less than I ever dared before...

I've had a lovely evening sitting drinking wine and eating olives in the park, and walked about 3 miles instead of getting the bus all the way home. I love summer!

Sarah - I started at about size 22. I'm not a proper 10 yet, more of a "gets into a 10 in shops that have a generous cut in loose fitting clothes" sort of 10, but I remember the days when my dream was to be that sort of 14, so I'll take it with pleasure!!!