Hot weather warning for the UK - Member questions and heatwave feedback

Actually just done it. The sun's disappeared and the wind is picking up, if there's a storm on the way I want as much of that breeze as possible in the house before I need to close the windows again.
 
Ive just heard that the actual temperature recorded at the nearby weather station yesterday was 39.9. It got to 29 in my living room so I’m taking great comfort in the fact that although it was still too warm in the house, the measures did their job pretty well given the conditions we were working with!
 
Today we put the piggies back in the shed, they seemed very happy, unlike my daughter who has enjoyed having them in her room! The shed was no warmer than the house so it seemed right. It rained again for all of two minutes, despite BBC weather showing rain most of the day, barely wet the paths, but it is much cooler here today. Still we've practiced emergency/temporary housing and we know it works, hopefully we won't have to do it again anytime soon.
 
Lorcan said:
Actually just done it. The sun's disappeared and the wind is picking up, if there's a storm on the way I want as much of that breeze as possible in the house before I need to close the windows again.
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I can just see you out there in it! Arms aloft! Face to the wind! Yelling, “This is beezer so it is!”

🤣🤣
 
Still no storm (or rain) :td: that sky wants to rain, clearly it's just being selfish. On the plus side, down to 23.9C in the goblin room. And they're back to their demanding little selves, which is what's most important.
 
Lorcan said:
Still no storm (or rain) :td: that sky wants to rain, clearly it's just being selfish. On the plus side, down to 23.9C in the goblin room. And they're back to their demanding little selves, which is what's most important.
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Do you think it helps them that they run around in their birthday suits?
 
Ruth1 said:
Do you think it helps them that they run around in their birthday suits?
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Possibly, possibly not. Bann's still quite dark, and Cam's got dark patches too. Bann also had me worried a couple of times because he just didn't look right, but then neither of them would drink from sock covered bottles, and I think Bann just got the worst of it. He's good now but he was struggling a bit, even this morning he wasn't quite right.
 
Lorcan said:
Possibly, possibly not. Bann's still quite dark, and Cam's got dark patches too. Bann also had me worried a couple of times because he just didn't look right, but then neither of them would drink from sock covered bottles, and I think Bann just got the worst of it. He's good now but he was struggling a bit, even this morning he wasn't quite right.
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Ach the wee men. Hope the weather stays cooler for you. Come back over here! I had a jumper on today!
 
Ruth1 said:
Ach the wee men. Hope the weather stays cooler for you. Come back over here! I had a jumper on today!
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Microsoft's weather thing tells me it's 18C outside. If I can just get it to drop low enough when I go to sleep I'll be happy, I don't want to leave their window open tonight just in case but if the temp doesn't drop enough I can't risk it.
 
Ruth1 said:
Ah. Hmmmm.

I WANT TO VISIT SOMEBODY ELSE’S HERD!
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Herds are lovely to visit and look at; looking after one is hard and unglamorous work. You also have a different relationship with your many piggies than when you just have two.
You are mostly a stablehand-cum-nurse majorly handing your bank account straight to the vets with plenty of sleepless nights thrown in and having everything happen in large clumps; from illnesses to multiple losses in quick succession. There are times you might as well camp out in the vet's waiting room. And that is not even touching on when group dynamics taking a turn for the worse...
 
Wiebke said:
Herds are lovely to visit and look at; looking after one is hard and unglamorous work. You also have a different relationship with your many piggies than when you just have two.
You are mostly a stablehand-cum-nurse majorly handing your bank account straight to the vets with plenty of sleepless nights thrown in and having everything happen in large clumps; from illnesses to multiple losses in quick succession. There are times you might as well camp out in the vet's waiting room. And that is not even touching on when group dynamics taking a turn for the worse...
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Two it is! (You sound like me when I hear someone say they’d love a dog 🤣)
 
I never had a herd (and wouldn't want one, because I love to have a close relationship with everyone of my piggies), but I mostly had small groups of 4 to 6 piggies, sometimes a second group of 2 as well.
From time to time (quote often really) I had the same experience of spending all of my spare time (and more) in the vet's waiting room and handing over money all the time.
I would even have been willing to pay, so that I didn't have to go to vet so often ... just for my piggies staying healthy. :yikes:
And the stressful times when my vet is on holliday, to find a suitable replacement who isn't on holliday at exactly the same time.

I love my group from the bottom of my heart, but sometimes I wish, I had only two.
(Of course this doesn't stop me from getting a new piggy after some losses, because the cage feels so empty. Probably should join Guinea Pigs Anonymous.) ;)
 
In Vienna we're at the beginning of a heat wave at the moment. Yesterday the temperature got up to nearly 36 degrees, today it could go up to 37 degrees. That should be the maximum, but temperature max will probably stay at 32 to 34 degrees for most of next week as well.
The longer it will last, the worse it will be inside, because the nights get warmer and warmer and the appartement doesn't cool down any more. I hope it won't be too bad.

Since Tuesday I have got a small construction site on the street under my living room window. They start to work at 6:30. :yikes:
Since I'm off work at the moment, I didn't have my usual alarm. So I was a bit late for early morning open windows. Opened they up ... they started to work, so I had to close them again.
Today I was better prepare. Windows open since 4 am, got up when they arrived and closed the window, went back to bed.
And now I have seen that they didn't do any work today. Just packed up their stuff with a lot of comotion. I could have kept the window open for much longer. :mal:
 
Bill & Ted said:
I found the cotton bedsheet over the cages a godsend along with the frozen water bottle and ice packs, it really kept the cooler. Hope you all stay reasonably comfortable until it’s over
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What do the cotton sheets over the cage do? Is it to keep in the coolness coming from the frozen bottles etc or do you dampen the sheet?
 
It’s a stage cooler today thankfully. I left a few cooling items in overnight because it felt so stuffy and warm.

I saw someone mention buying a granite chopping board. Probably another daft question but does it matter what colour in terms of it absorbing heat or do they all stay cool?

Dunelm do s small 20x20cm one in black and a 30x40cm one in light grey.

Thinking of things to buy before we get anymore hot weather!
 
Spaniel said:
It’s a stage cooler today thankfully. I left a few cooling items in overnight because it felt so stuffy and warm.

I saw someone mention buying a granite chopping board. Probably another daft question but does it matter what colour in terms of it absorbing heat or do they all stay cool?

Dunelm do s small 20x20cm one in black and a 30x40cm one in light grey.

Thinking of things to buy before we get anymore hot weather!
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No it doesn’t matter. Its the fact it’s granite that it stays cool, no matter the colour
 
Piggies&buns said:
No it doesn’t matter. Its the fact it’s granite that it stays cool, no matter the colour
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That’s good because the smaller size is perfect piggy sized. We have a cooling tile already but I can’t find it for sale anymore. I wished I’d had two of them so need to prepare for next time.
 
I went up to where the fire was today while out running, so much damage..it spread farther than I thought it would have. Apparently they were still there by the following morning to stop anything reigniting.

I had to laugh yesterday at my 10k race, I was waiting for my friend to finish and I was absolutely freezing cold 🤣 I wouldnt have believed it if you'd told me the night before.

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Pound Shilling & Pig said:
@Viennese Furbabies i hope your heatwave doesn't last too long and everyone stays safe and cool.
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Thank you!
The current weather forecast shows high temperatures at least untill Tuesday. It probably will stay hot for most of the next week.
During the night the temperature stayed around 20 degrees but it got more humid. So not really ideal to get fresh air inside, but at least the construction site is gone.
 
Would cool pack like this be ok for the piggies?
 

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Tesco do cheap small blocks that are filled with water so if they break or are nibbled they are safe BUT I always cover my blocks with a flannel
 
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