achey and a bit tired, hot working today, cleaned the van after some retarded gonk spilled skank in it...
i mean, in this heat? it was humming!
but we took the opportunity to give it a reet grand clean, front and back, in and out, top to bottom etc...
jeyes fluid and pine disinfectant!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 20:30, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

what was the heat there?

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:01, Reply)

hot, damned hot.
and sweaty.
and sooooooooo stinky.
bleh.
dunno, maybe only 22/23 but we were generating rather a lot of heat, me and daz...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:03, Reply)

you spack
it's fucking 32 here
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:09, Reply)

i'm built for cooler, northerly climes. edit: you'd freeze here!
the further south i go, the more g&t i need to drink in the shade...
and i guess i'm about 20kg heavier than i want to be :-(
gonna scrounge some kit to set up a wee gym down at that unit of mine. i'm always there at the end of the day, what better time than that to kick the chuff out of a huge bag? grr.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:14, Reply)

they say boxing is a great sport for getting fit
I'm thinking about it...thinking really hard
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:16, Reply)

i work really hard but that's slow, strenuous work.
a big punch-bag, about 5feet tall, full of sand would be the cardio-vascular workout i need. that is, on top of the weekly evening walks i go on with my mate the plasterer. northern fells of the lake district mainly, building up to bigger stuff in time!!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:27, Reply)

Misapprehension!
UK heat is totally different to most US heat.

UK heat is like Northern Florida/Southern Georgia in the summer.

Even though the temperature isn't numerically high it WEIGHS A TON. It settles on your neck and shoulders and pushes you into the ground.

I was strolling around Alberquerque last year in 38 quite comfortably because it's dry.

I'm making assumptions - where are you?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:31, Reply)

I live in virginia, it can get very humid or very dry here
and really, comfortable in 38?
your brain must be foggy, thats obscene
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:34, Reply)

nah Kristine, TD speaks only truths, i personally vouch for his character.
it's the humidity, or should that be dampness that's the killer here. all that water on top of you.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:38, Reply)

if you're not wearing scuba gear get out of the ocean

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Yes, not a problem.
It's semi-arid - there's very little humidity and I'm a very hardy little chap.

Virginia is roll-through country to me. I've spent a day and night in Ashland, a few hours in Newport News and that's about it.

Spent far more time in the seccestional child, West Virginia.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:42, Reply)

I'd tell you to have a longer visit but I've no idea where you would go
let's be honest here, Virginia is boring
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:46, Reply)

I drew that conclusion myself!
My Ashland time was OK until the sun went down and everyone went to sleep.

I spent an hour trying to find a bar - any bar - in Newport News.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:48, Reply)

LAME
they've closed all the bars around here, we go to west virginia now, the most hopping place is T.G.I. Fridays.
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:56, Reply)

Oh Dear.
TGI Fridays is the preferred haunt of the immediately post-pubescent around here. I expect you'd find some daytime O/T contributors in there, with notes from their mums...

Some of us must get up in 6 hours for work so - bedtime.

Night, folks.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 15 Jul 2009, 22:09, Reply)

nitey nite
dude
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Wed 15 Jul 2009, 22:21, Reply)