Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
#16
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#20
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
Ah you poor sweetie! I concur and just so grateful for the nice bright sunny winter day I am just about to walk in! (Sorry not gloating there but I do sympathize, it sucks!!!)
#21
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,375
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I have a very special frock that I like to dwell in during Summer. (At least around the house). It came from a very cheap chain store and I customised it to cut off the belt. It is what one might call disgusting.
When I wear it, I am a minger. In normal circumstances I'm not a minger, but that's another thing about this stupid time of year. I am a whinger and a minger.
When I wear it, I am a minger. In normal circumstances I'm not a minger, but that's another thing about this stupid time of year. I am a whinger and a minger.
9 weeks in USA/UK winter nearly over and nothing their winter can throw at you is anywhere as near uncomfortable as a aussie summer.
I too hate the way you have to dress in the summer to survive, either swealter outside in full cover up combat gear style + anti UV paste, or round the house hilda ogden cotton smock and even in that you boil.
Packing away all my beautiful boots, coats, jeans today and returning to sweatty betty mode HELLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP me
#22
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I was COLD last night... So bloody cold I had to switch the fan off
#23
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I really do get where you're coming from, and I realise we have only been here a very short time, but this is my perspective.
Yes it has been hot and sweaty and sticky, which in general I do not enjoy.
But, for the first time in nearly 40 years, I do not have skin that itches constantly, is not sore from all the cracks, does not flake all over the place. I don't wince when I put my bra on as the straps will not be sitting on sore and inflamed skin. I have at last (for me) soft, relatively smooth skin that doesn't feel like sandpaper and can tolerate someone touching it.
The worst thing for me in the UK was the weather. Not the practical side of things, but what it does to my skin. I spent about 10 months of the year that way. The other 2 would be when my skin was just starting to feel better, then the cold and wind would start up again
I am enjoying having nice, painfree skin for once.
Yes it has been hot and sweaty and sticky, which in general I do not enjoy.
But, for the first time in nearly 40 years, I do not have skin that itches constantly, is not sore from all the cracks, does not flake all over the place. I don't wince when I put my bra on as the straps will not be sitting on sore and inflamed skin. I have at last (for me) soft, relatively smooth skin that doesn't feel like sandpaper and can tolerate someone touching it.
The worst thing for me in the UK was the weather. Not the practical side of things, but what it does to my skin. I spent about 10 months of the year that way. The other 2 would be when my skin was just starting to feel better, then the cold and wind would start up again
I am enjoying having nice, painfree skin for once.
#24
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Joined: Jul 2008
Location: South Australia
Posts: 503
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I hate this time of year.
Hate it.
Stinking hot weather. Aggressive hot and bothered people. Bushfires, cyclones, irukandji jellyfish, sharks, hot water out of the tap, dead garden, snakes, spiders, sweating stinking people, make up that runs down your face, mosquitoes, whirring fricking fans all night, blasting air conditioners that blow your newspaper across the room, soft chocolate, milk that's off before it's use by date, dustbowl lawns, burning hot steering wheels, going to bed hot and annoyed, waking up and it's still hot before you even get out of bed, people who say "ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful."
I hate it.
It's the same every year.
Hate it.
Stinking hot weather. Aggressive hot and bothered people. Bushfires, cyclones, irukandji jellyfish, sharks, hot water out of the tap, dead garden, snakes, spiders, sweating stinking people, make up that runs down your face, mosquitoes, whirring fricking fans all night, blasting air conditioners that blow your newspaper across the room, soft chocolate, milk that's off before it's use by date, dustbowl lawns, burning hot steering wheels, going to bed hot and annoyed, waking up and it's still hot before you even get out of bed, people who say "ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful."
I hate it.
It's the same every year.
What I hate most of all is the dangers that accompany those temperatures as can be seen by the numerous fires that have been burning around the country in the last week and the total destruction they cause. Then there are the idiots who thoughtlessly and in some cases deliberately start some of these fires.
I applaud the country fire service and all the hard work they do, working in some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable.
Roll on Autumn
#25
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I can only help with two things: we have a ceiling fan (no aircon) and it keeps the bedroom nice and cool with very little noise, and you can buy makeup setitng spray (Urban Decay make one) which will help your makeup set and stay if you need to wear it. MUA (they have a website) have just launched one and it's only a fiver, shipping to Oz is cheap. Also Smashbox's Limitless products are damn near budge proof and hold up very well in the heat also.
Like you I'm not a fan of the heat, trying to get sunblock to stick to already sweaty skin is no fun and it makes me cranky. And yes, I let the girls out as soon as I get in the door and spend the evening in a fetching vest and tracky shorts, I look like a right minger!
Like you I'm not a fan of the heat, trying to get sunblock to stick to already sweaty skin is no fun and it makes me cranky. And yes, I let the girls out as soon as I get in the door and spend the evening in a fetching vest and tracky shorts, I look like a right minger!
#26
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I hate this time of year.
Hate it.
Stinking hot weather. Aggressive hot and bothered people. Bushfires, cyclones, irukandji jellyfish, sharks, hot water out of the tap, dead garden, snakes, spiders, sweating stinking people, make up that runs down your face, mosquitoes, whirring fricking fans all night, blasting air conditioners that blow your newspaper across the room, soft chocolate, milk that's off before it's use by date, dustbowl lawns, burning hot steering wheels, going to bed hot and annoyed, waking up and it's still hot before you even get out of bed, people who say "ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful."
I hate it.
It's the same every year.
Hate it.
Stinking hot weather. Aggressive hot and bothered people. Bushfires, cyclones, irukandji jellyfish, sharks, hot water out of the tap, dead garden, snakes, spiders, sweating stinking people, make up that runs down your face, mosquitoes, whirring fricking fans all night, blasting air conditioners that blow your newspaper across the room, soft chocolate, milk that's off before it's use by date, dustbowl lawns, burning hot steering wheels, going to bed hot and annoyed, waking up and it's still hot before you even get out of bed, people who say "ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful."
I hate it.
It's the same every year.
Imagine if you lived in Africa, where you would have most of that AND go to bed hungry most nights...
S
#29
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Joined: Dec 2002
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Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
I really do get where you're coming from, and I realise we have only been here a very short time, but this is my perspective.
Yes it has been hot and sweaty and sticky, which in general I do not enjoy.
But, for the first time in nearly 40 years, I do not have skin that itches constantly, is not sore from all the cracks, does not flake all over the place. I don't wince when I put my bra on as the straps will not be sitting on sore and inflamed skin. I have at last (for me) soft, relatively smooth skin that doesn't feel like sandpaper and can tolerate someone touching it.
The worst thing for me in the UK was the weather. Not the practical side of things, but what it does to my skin. I spent about 10 months of the year that way. The other 2 would be when my skin was just starting to feel better, then the cold and wind would start up again
I am enjoying having nice, painfree skin for once.
Yes it has been hot and sweaty and sticky, which in general I do not enjoy.
But, for the first time in nearly 40 years, I do not have skin that itches constantly, is not sore from all the cracks, does not flake all over the place. I don't wince when I put my bra on as the straps will not be sitting on sore and inflamed skin. I have at last (for me) soft, relatively smooth skin that doesn't feel like sandpaper and can tolerate someone touching it.
The worst thing for me in the UK was the weather. Not the practical side of things, but what it does to my skin. I spent about 10 months of the year that way. The other 2 would be when my skin was just starting to feel better, then the cold and wind would start up again
I am enjoying having nice, painfree skin for once.
I on the other hand am having to wear long sleeved cotton tops every day just to ease the pain. I'm sleeping 70% of the time, in the bath most of the rest, and on the days I have to go to work its an ordeal that leaves me in tears from walking at all.
Please god let it cool down soon, before I totally go mad, I haven't been this sick since my first two years here
#30
Re: Ooh, Australia's always sunny and the beaches are beautiful.
We dread the return to the heat. The 'perfect climate' claptrap they spout is BS. It is a very very harsh climate and like others on this forum after years there, I now suffer dreadful reactions to the extreme UV levels.
9 weeks in USA/UK winter nearly over and nothing their winter can throw at you is anywhere as near uncomfortable as a aussie summer.
I too hate the way you have to dress in the summer to survive, either swealter outside in full cover up combat gear style + anti UV paste, or round the house hilda ogden cotton smock and even in that you boil.
Packing away all my beautiful boots, coats, jeans today and returning to sweatty betty mode HELLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP me
9 weeks in USA/UK winter nearly over and nothing their winter can throw at you is anywhere as near uncomfortable as a aussie summer.
I too hate the way you have to dress in the summer to survive, either swealter outside in full cover up combat gear style + anti UV paste, or round the house hilda ogden cotton smock and even in that you boil.
Packing away all my beautiful boots, coats, jeans today and returning to sweatty betty mode HELLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP me
It's that time of year once more.....