Paddling pools

[ailbhe]

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.

Comments

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Sun umbrella! (http://www.beachstore.com/detail.aspx?ID=986)

[ailbhe]

I should investigate those. One of those falling over on top of us when L ran into it wouldn't be as damaging as the gazebo thing we have. Definite possibility. (Her first summer, I was able to use a little sunflower umbrella, but she's bigger now and it's a lot hotter).

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

We had one with a nice solid base that even our gigantic boxer dog couldn't knock over. The base was filled with sand.