Awake and up all night

I''ve been watching and listening to a tropical beach on you tube. Just need to have a basin of cool water for my feet, shut my eyes, and I'm there. 

I think it was you that suggested freezer blocks wrapped in a tea towel. I'm going to give that a go. Still sweltering here, even downstairs.  xxx

I suspect that if it rains after dark, there will be naked bodies in back gardens throughout the country.  If it's just daytime rain, there will be low stocks of fig leaves. xxx  

Eureka! You have found it! 

Glorious  I looked at the powerful night thunderstorm and it felt like a warm blanket had been placed over my sagging shoulders. I'm champing at the bit to look at other videos and reading the comments, too. A collective of others trapped in the infernal insomnia world it seems.

Excellent work, Shimmer. A thousand thanks for that xxx

I don't know where I got them but I have a couple of thin ice lolly shaped pouches that freeze. You can stuff them about your person, in a pocket, in your pillow case. Brilliant.

Whatever works for you. Can you hang a soaked sheet or towel near you or get on it or under it? Some like the cooking mats for dogs 

Cheers

Hmmm fig leaves ... well I have a lot of local food stores that sell fruit and veg from around the world so one of them must do fig leaves!!!

Ha! Autoknowsbest keeps putting fug leaves. Perhaps for once more accurate 

Cheers

Before fridges were common household appliances, many village cottages had a galvanised cupboard (about half a fridge size) in an outside porch. A regularly wetted towel was placed over it, the evaporation process taking heat from the metal box which was good enough to keep milk cool and useable for a day or two. Our first fridge was in 1958. xxx

I knew it would be your thing

Cheers

We had one of those boxes at the farm, Ray. I think it was a cream colour but the edges were very sharp. I was always catching my fingers when meddling about with it xxx

Ooh I remember getting our first fridge so you had yours years before us. 

I remember grandmother's pantry was large enough to stand inside and it had a stone shelf for keeping things cool. I remember being tasked with buttering bread on it, many, many slices, for some large family do when I could barely reach it

Cheers 

Shimmer, our pantry is beneath the stairs so tall enough to stand in. The stone slab's there but no room for buttering bread as the boxes piled on it would get in the way.

Our house was built in 1888 but no cellar, thank god, as I don't like those.xxx