Don't have your air con on so high. You get used to the cold (unhealthy) air and then feel the humidity more. Have doors and windows open (screens shut) and get used to the feeling and use fans. Only turn the air con on occasionally. You're never going to acclimatise when using full blast air con.

We never used our air con, but the last couple of weeks I've been working in a place that has it on all the time and now find myself using it at home, simply because I've become used to it. I'm making myself not turn it on and just remember to drink lots and move around normally instead of sitting thinking it's too hot to do anything.

Totally agree Penny, we thought it being our first summer here we wouldn't cope without having the aircon blasting away! truth is we hardly ever use it! and we don't have fans only time I put aircon on is while I'm cooking and get hot being tied to the stove When I go to someones house who has it on I'm frozen

I remember it got so hot/humid in Sydney on some days it was like someone holding a hairdryer into your face from a couple of inches away.

Lovely day in Hampshire by the way - the sun is out, the frost has disappeared. I'm planning a cycle ride out into The New Forest later.

Dave
ps apologies for my flippant remarks re. NSW

Are you going to post something worth reading....rather than "my place is better than yours" school kid attitude!?

Sydney FC made 3 chances on Friday ... and they were all shite ... you must feel at home being a Spurs fan

Tillysmum..........

What is the situation you are fed up with? Or is it that OH is finding it difficult to get a job or something else? Do tell...........

Jackie
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Hi Jackie will pm you later

and we can't wait.

I quite agree.

Would you really want to now?

We only stick ours on to cool the bedroom before beddybyes.

Three chances! just like Spurs - perhaps we could become Sydney FC's feeder club!

I can't help it - I'm fifty-three going on thirteen.

I wonder which team has the more Brits?

Or the most corrupt chairman? I remember that dodgy Alan Sugar geezer

I don't think it's the Gooners! The commentator always says if they include a Pom - Ashley Cole or Theo Walcott usually.

Spurs have quite a few and, most unusually, a Jock now that they've bought Alan Hutton. I'm rather hoping that he will become the 'new' Dave Mackay.

Whereabouts in QLD are you?

I thought I was going to die in the heat but have found it fine, not even turned our aircon on apart from to test it when we first moved in, oh and to heat myself up after a cold shower before we got our gas bottles

It's been humid but I've known worse, ooh Palm Springs in the States, now THAT was humid

I agree what Pen said though, try and get used to it without using the aircon too much so it's not such a shock when you step out the house

Thats good advice about the air con etc. When we finally make it out to QLD I was expecting to be living with air con - but will try and limit it!
Does anyone know what the general weather is like around Coomera area? Generally all year round?

The last few days have been ok down here (bit south of Coomera) it's been a lot less humid, clear and very bright since the storm a few days ago but I could feel the humidity building again this evening so have the air cond on now. (10pm)

We try to manage without the air con as much as possible, if you do have it on run it at about 24 degrees, or just on a "Dry" rather than "chill" setting if you have one, also use fans as much as possible.

We only have fans in the bedrooms and nothing but sheets on the beds and we're usually quite cool by the end of the night, soon as the sun gets up it's a different story though.

I've given up trying to do anything outside now (can't even face putting the remaining patio furniture back together) just too hot for most things during the day.....other than beach or shopping in an air con mall The kids are drained by the time they come home from school and usually need frozen cokes before they come round