Paddling pools
I keep reading about people using paddling pools to cool down in the heat of the day. But it's too hot and sunny here! Linnea and I both get a runny tummy if we're out in the blazing, bright, painful sun for too long. Do other people just have shady spots for paddling pools? Or less sensitivity to relentless pounding sunshine beating down on them? Or some sort of magic hats? Because we have hats and sunscreen, and they help, but round about noon (which is 1 pm here) for, say, at least two hours either side, it's just too damn sunny for that.
I'm jealous, because I'd love to spend the hottest part of the day in the paddling pool, but we just plain can't. It was 5 pm today before it dulled down enough for me to go out without getting dizzy.
Perhaps I need to buy a beach sunshade type tent... but I suspect it wouldn't be enough. It's worse than usual this summer, because I am also pregnant.
So we stay indoors, eating ice lollies and reading books and, when she gets too fractious, watching TV. She watched almost an hour today, then had lunch, and after lunch she played in her room (no idea how, it was far too hot for me up there) very happily for almost two hours.
I sat around meeeeeeelting like the wicked witch of the west.
I'm jealous, because I'd love to spend the hottest part of the day in the paddling pool, but we just plain can't. It was 5 pm today before it dulled down enough for me to go out without getting dizzy.
Perhaps I need to buy a beach sunshade type tent... but I suspect it wouldn't be enough. It's worse than usual this summer, because I am also pregnant.
So we stay indoors, eating ice lollies and reading books and, when she gets too fractious, watching TV. She watched almost an hour today, then had lunch, and after lunch she played in her room (no idea how, it was far too hot for me up there) very happily for almost two hours.
I sat around meeeeeeelting like the wicked witch of the west.
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The summer I was in Sussex, we bought a paddling pool, for the toddler who was accompanying one of the staff members, but mostly she wanted to play in the grass while we sat around paddling our feet in the pool.
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Hope you manage to work something out so you can both feel cooler - this heat is not nice.
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I use the one that came with his water/sand table. Stuck into a plastic crate (water bottle container), it stands up by itself. Indispensable. Shocking how little it takes. But, yeah, you gotta have something.
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Still, at least it's down to 26C in the coolest room in the house now, at midnight...
We need to borrow money for a portable aircon unit, I think.
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I'd investigate a garden umbrella with a weighted bottom, if possible. Or a whirly clothes dryer with a sheet over the top!