Bloody hot weather

Nov 20, 2015

Today is the 3rd day in a row of between 43 and 46 degrees = bloody hot.

The wind is also very hot and strong, the type that Victorians would cringe at because of bushfires. It dries the moisture from your nose and mouth in seconds so I am drinking over 5 litre of water a day.

Here, (out of town) we have grass fires nearly every day from glass that bursts into flames in the hot sun. No one blinks an eye and many thought I was weird when I asked if there was an evacuation point in town should there be a fire.

There is an evacuation point but as it was explained to me "It’s more for floods and we will be airlifted if that happens".

Thankfully I have aircon at my home and at work.

We play outside for about an hour first thing in the morning until morning tea. Then we stay inside until we go home. I now finish at the centre at 3PM and walk over to the pool to run an OSHC program.

This involves me feeding squillions of school aged children / teens fruit and chilled water and sitting by the pool with the pool manager / life guard.

 

 It’s not fun at all. It’s stupidly hot and I can’t swim until the children have gone home (supervision). That is my welcome relief - diving into the pool - yes - I dive in, the water isn't freezing cold but it is cool enough to be refreshing.

I’m looking forward to the goggles that Linda is mailing me so I can start my proper lap training because the gym is in a corrugated iron shed aaarrrggghhhh