Hot hot hot once more in the mountains.  We have 41° in the shade up on the terrace. Far to hot to do anything but get naked and lie around doing nothing Even in the house we have 31°

This hot weather spell seems to go on and on.  During the night it is so hot that sleeping is almost imposible. At 3.30am this morning it was 33° outside.  The day satrted with a few clouds and some wind, but they once again have gone. Now it is a little hazy and the sun is burning once more down.  Every movement is too much. I am sitting here in my Livingroom with the shutters closed so the sun does not heat up the room and it is already 33°. Up on the Roof terace it should be more.  The weather forcast has promised a rise in temperature for the next few days. Phew.

Wow is it hot here in the mountains.  During the night, the temperature never dropped under 24°, and this morning we have 33° in the shade. Upstairs on the terrrace it even shows up to 48° (in the sun )

35° in the shade with a nearly blue sky but cloud free. :-)  a little misty but not too bad here in the mountains once again.

Once again a lovely day here in the mountains with a nearly clear blue sky and 33° in the shade.  During the night the temperatures dropped to pleasant 24°, but we still had to leave all the windows and doors open to cool off. At the moment there is a little breeze now and then which makes it very pleasant.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby´s beds were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn’t open on the weekends, somehow we didn’t starve to death.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because:
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did´nt have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them.
Mum didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
FOOTBALL, RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully’s always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like ‘Kiora’ and ‘Blade’ and ‘Ridge’ and ‘Vanilla’
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, pass this onto your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

What a hot day once again here int he mountains.  On the Roofterace we have 34° in the shade, blue sky and now and then a little wind (which does nothing to cool us down )

Just have to spend another day lazying around doing nothing.

Another lovely day here in the mountains with sunshine, blue sky and 25° in the shade and rising.  A perfect day to rest and recharge the batteries.

Grey but warm in the mountains with 25°

Didnt get a chance to post the weather this morning, but after a rather cloudy start it got better and better. In the south up to 30°, and now we have 21° here in the mountains.