Send some heat my way, will you? We have the coldest summer in... 20 years? It's like 14 degrees on a good day. ><

I wondered when this year's thread would start .

I've had a good day in my nice cool flat then walked home along the beach and had an ice cream, although I wound up with loads of towels to wash as everybody wants a shower. Tomorrow I'm off to London and an airconditioned hotel room for the rest of the week with somebody else doing the laundry, so I'm happy with it .

If an airconditioning unit I'd spend hundreds on wasn't working, I'd take it back. Make sure you have the doors and windows shut when it's on though.

In bookings if you can't get a decent cross breeze then an oscillating fan helps... and then bring ice cubes into play. Use ice cubes in your mouth for oral, for example, or just run the cube across their bodies. And drink it. With the fan blowing on you it will help you stay cool.

Dyson hot + cold fans are very versatile, expensive but quiet and useful for a heat boost during cold weather when waiting for heating to kick in.

A damp bedsheet over a fan works like a budget AC unit.

Yes, or wash your hair and leave it, so the back of your neck gets cold.

After my 'normal' shower, if the heat gets to me I just sit in a tepid bath, and leave the water - it's good for one or two more dips! I have just before bed, don't dry myself, and lie on top of the covers with the fan on me - bliss.

I keep getting asked to wear latex! I have a latex bra and knickers which I choose over the dresses or catsuits in this heat x