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Gramaisc

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Tonight, I bumped into the chap doing security outside the pub.

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He told me that, if there was any trouble, he would break a few arms.

He was still there when I left - conscientious type...

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Jonah

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TWENTY NINE DEGREES CELSIUS...

Stafford people. That temperature means that you should LEAVE YOUR DOGS AT HOME AND DON’T TAKE THEM OUT WALKING.
 

Thehooperman

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TWENTY NINE DEGREES CELSIUS...

Stafford people. That temperature means that you should LEAVE YOUR DOGS AT HOME AND DON’T TAKE THEM OUT WALKING.

27 degrees over here but I've retreated into a shaded bar to keep Bee a bit cooler.

She's had two tap water showers, loads of walkie breaks and drinks. Just need to work out how to get from the bus stop to the cottage which will be a half mile walk.

There's a pub near the bus stop so may need to take her in their for a cool down :)
 

littleme

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27 degrees over here but I've retreated into a shaded bar to keep Bee a bit cooler.

She's had two tap water showers, loads of walkie breaks and drinks. Just need to work out how to get from the bus stop to the cottage which will be a half mile walk.

There's a pub near the bus stop so may need to take her in their for a cool down :)
Give her a piggyback back to the cottage...
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
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TWENTY NINE DEGREES CELSIUS...

Stafford people. That temperature means that you should LEAVE YOUR DOGS AT HOME AND DON’T TAKE THEM OUT WALKING.
Currently having a pitstop. The OTG says 41c and the dog took two steps outside and wanted to get straight back in the car. Much persuasion and threats were needed to get her into the relative coolness of the motorway services where we're currently downing coffee and iced water pending resuming the final hour of today's leg. Supposed to be even hotter tomorrow so range might even be worse than today's 205 miles per charge.
 

Gramaisc

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proactive

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It's 34 down south today. 34 sodding degrees.



Hey, at least you get 3 digits from yours.
Previously in hot weather the range has only come down from the usual 290 or so miles to 250. However this is the first time we've had to turn the aircon out of eco and into full on ice-age mode and it makes a big difference.

Not sure why we've felt the need to go full blast with the air as when we were in Hungary part of last summer the temperature reached 44 on a couple of days and still we got by in eco.

Mind you the range might also have been affected by our speed...

Anyway, sitting on the hotel terrace sipping a delightful Burgundy, overlooking the Saône river. Only 200 miles or so to do tomorrow so all is well with the world.
 
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Cue

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Previously in hot weather the range has only come down from the usual 290 or so miles to 250. However this is the first time we've had to turn the aircon out of eco and into full on ice-age mode and it makes a big difference.

Not sure why we've felt the need to go full blast with the air as when we were in Hungary part of last summer the temperature reached 44 on a couple of days and still we got by in eco.

Mind you the range might also have been affected by our speed...

Anyway, sitting on the hotel terrace sipping a delightful Burgundy, overlooking the Saône river. Only 200 miles or so to do tomorrow so all is well with the world.

Humidity makes one hell of a difference.

I only lose 2-5 miles when I turn the AC on, but I suppose my battery is somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 the size so the AC probably can’t run for long enough to make a dent before the drive train drains it anyway...
 

BobClay

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About four years ago we had a batch of hot weather in July and I found that those very warm nights took me back to my time in hot countries when the AC onboard ship had failed. Not at all pleasant as ships are warm by nature, couple that with tropical heat and you're in meltdown. Well I wasn’t keen on installing AC, how often would you need it in this country ? … but ceiling fans ?

So I went on a mad binge with ceiling fans (much easier to fit in a bungalow) to the point where I even bought a couple of scrappers, one from a charity shop and one on Ebay. Both were faulty but actually quite easy to repair. Barring mechanical failure, the two most common faults on these fans are the switches as they get a bit of stick over time, and the capacitor inside the stem. (When that goes it usually results in the fan humming and hahing but not wanting to turn). Both these items are available online and easily replaced.

At the end of the binge I had a fan in every room, at cost of sore knees and a nuked back.

Was I ever glad of it last night. :urgh:
 

age'd parent

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It is officially hot, the fan that was blowing on me, is now blowing into the computer case, as the fans were having a bit of a whine at me, now the computer is comfortable and I am sitting here in the nude spraying water over my naked body, (Just thought it's about time I annoyed the men and excited the ladies):twisted: :D
 
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