Heatwave

How are you coping? Are you enjoying air conditioned comfort or slowing melting at your desk?

As the hottest temperatures for three years look set to continue for the rest of the week and, who knows into the summer, do you spend you lunch hour in the frozen food section of Tesco cooling off or 'hot desking' try to avoid pneumonia from the super chilled air?

As I sit here - windows wide open and countless fans on the go, all to little or no avail - I am envious of those of you working in modern climate controlled offices. The first thing I am reminded of is that unlike in cold weather there is no max temperature limit. So it's up to me to cope the best I can.

Advice from the Dept of Health is:

• Keep curtains on windows exposed to the sun closed if the temperature outside is higher than it is inside.

• Once the temperature outside has dropped lower than it is inside, open the windows

• Water plants, and spray the ground outside windows with water to help cool the air

All pretty sensible stuff. But to that list I would like to add:

• placing your shoes and socks in the fridge until home time

• relocating your office or business to the Shetland Islands
  

• installing an ice cream vending machine next to the photocopier