Linnea's first summer, the coolest room in our house didn't go below 28C / 82F; most rooms were 32C / 90F at night.
We live in England, so have no air conditioning. We kept the skylight in the attic open all the time, all the other windows and curtains closed until dusk, and open all night. We closed them as soon after dawn - 4:30 am - as we woke. And we didn't wear much, or use any bedcovers, and she wore only a nappy.
And I spent a lot of time very very worried.
But after the first week we were kind of acclimatised, a bit. It was still too hot, and I didn't go out in the sun, but we could function. Rob had aircon at work, which probably helped the sum total of family energy available. I spent a lot of time in the daytime spraying Linnea with a plant spray.
We bought her a little aircon unit for her first summer in her own bedroom, though.
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Date: 2007-08-03 09:02 pm (UTC)We live in England, so have no air conditioning. We kept the skylight in the attic open all the time, all the other windows and curtains closed until dusk, and open all night. We closed them as soon after dawn - 4:30 am - as we woke. And we didn't wear much, or use any bedcovers, and she wore only a nappy.
And I spent a lot of time very very worried.
But after the first week we were kind of acclimatised, a bit. It was still too hot, and I didn't go out in the sun, but we could function. Rob had aircon at work, which probably helped the sum total of family energy available. I spent a lot of time in the daytime spraying Linnea with a plant spray.
We bought her a little aircon unit for her first summer in her own bedroom, though.