The rest of the country is living through a Met Office severe weather warning with temperatures hovering around 40C, but Skye today is a cool 22C with balmy sea breezes.
I don’t think that we would have survived that heat if we’d still been living in London.
The house we were renting there was badly insulated :- a town house with three floors, our bedroom being at the top of the house. There was no airflow or air conditioning, and the heat would rise to the top of the house and make sleep simply impossible.
Even with fans we found it too hot to do anything, and whole months could be lost to weariness and bad temper through lack of sleep. There was also a continual sense of grubby stickiness from the proximity of the crowds and the air pollution, which was palpable.
London does not do summer well, like most cities.
I know that people think it’s bizarre but we genuinely like the cooler temperatures up here. There’s nearly always a wind blowing, and it rarely exceeds the mid 20s. That’s comfortable, as far as I’m concerned!
We’re so glad that we got out. The air is clean and cool here, and we enjoy the wide open spaces of the croft. Today was a good washing day and husband hung sheets and a duvet cover out to line dry in the warm breeze.
I’ll take the cooler temperatures and the rain over the pressure cooker of the city any day.
Feeling so lucky to be here.
Ravencroft Skye 
I feel the same about living here Luffy. It has been hotter than with you and I have found it uncomfortable but it isn’t as hot as where my children live in SE England and the trees cast welcome shade. I would hate to go back to city life.
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I have been wondering how you were going with the heat wave. It looks so bad in the media. London is suffering under an Australian Summer at present, and nothing there is designed to cope with that. I am so glad you are safe and cool. The fires in the northern part of the planet look really bad too, I hope they are not a prediction for us when Summer comes.
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I hope not too. I despair of what it will take until politicians and the general populace get climate change and start committing to real change.
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Here in the high plains of Colorado we were at 108F in the shade yesterday. We are melting! We lived in the high Rocky Mountains of Colorado for 41 years, and were used to cool mountain temps that very rarely went above 85F and mostly hung out in the 70sF. So this is quite an adjustment for us.
I think it is great that you are doing so well at your new location with all the coolness and fresh air it brings you!
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Hoping you can get cooler and more comfortable soon. That’s some heat!
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I think we are stuck with it for another month or so. But it is amazing how much some cloud cover helps. The afternoons where we get some cloud cover are a blessing. Though they seem to be few and far between.
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