This highly gorgeous theme is FREEmium, courtesy of FreebiesDock.com. It won’t stay looking like this forever… I have plans to customise it, as soon as I can find my designer hat. For now, the default look is more than pretty enough to hang around for a while.

In Other News

Everyone in the UK is now aware that there is a heatwave going on. Ubiquity tells me that it is 25 degrees C where I am right now, but no thanks to the humidity, it feels much hotter.

Here’s a few tips I’ve gathered from a few places which are supposed to help us all bear this meltying (typo, but I like it!) heat:

1. Stay indoors, especially during the hottest parts of the day (11am to 3pm). Especially my fellow asthmatics (damned humidity that comes with British heat).
2. If you must go out, wear sunscreen, sunglasses and a hat.
3. Drink lots of water.
4. Close the shades on your south- and west-facing windows.
5. Find the coolest room in your house. Chill out in there. (A good excuse to move the furniture around if I ever saw one!)
6. We’re not like the Americans. We never cottoned on to air conditioning in our homes. To replicate some of the effect, put a fan in the window. Have it facing outwards during the day to blow hot air outside, and turn it around at night to blow cool evening air through the room.

I probably need to track down some advice out there for people who feel sick when they eat during this kind of weather… I’m getting tired of living on lettuce- and watermelon-type foods.

Stay sun-safe, folks!

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