Summer time

I know that I should be used to hot weather but for some reason I grow less able to put up with it.  My daughter says that in the winter she wants her reverse-cycle air conditioner on 23 degrees but in the summer she wants it at 18.  I guess she is still pondering on relative heating and cooling and may at some stage come up with an answer that makes sense to her.  Ok back to me.  I know in winter I am more likely to put on a few more layers of clothes and maybe use a blankie.  I am loathe to use the radiator until at least June, even though it is freezing in May.  However, in the hot weather I need to use the air-conditioner and use it a lot.  Of course I still do the stingy thing of not putting it on until later in the day.  I have had it explained to me that it has to do less work if I put it on first thing in the morning but to my mind I am saving electricity.  I have grown very fond of my two air-conditioners and so do not want to do anything outside and away from them.  I always plan to get up early and do the washing and hang it out before the sun gets a sting in it.  However, due to my innate laziness, this never happens.  I have a lot of washing sitting in the machine ready to go but cannot be bothered.  This is the conundrum, do I venture away from home in my non-cooled car or do I go without bread and milk and perhaps little tins of the dog food and buy everything on a cooler day?  I absolutely have to go out tomorrow so I can buy all the things I have run out of at the same time.  This makes sense to me but of course the poor dog is looking at me sadly and I feel terribly selfish sitting here in air-conditioned comfort.  Years ago we only had fans and if it was hot we went out the front and sat talking to the neighbours.   My beloved father-in-law told me that families used to go and camp on the beach.  The men would go to work and then come home to the beach in the evening.  What a wonderful solution that would be, I would love to camp on the beach and listen to the waves at night and have the salty tang of the sea in my nostrils.  Unfortunately those days have long passed as has sleeping on mattresses in the front garden.  It was a simpler time and it is sad that it has passed.  During the night there really is no escape from hot weather  as we have to keep our windows locked against intruders.  However, we do have our blessed cooling devices, that is if we can afford to use them.  Nowadays elderly pensioners find it difficult to manage and so turning off the cooling devices is their first money saving solution.  They are the ones who are carted off to hospital with heat exhaustion.  Everyone should keep their fluids up and as I have been told that I am in the aged portion of the population I faithfully drink glasses of water.   I am also thinking of becoming a nudist in the comfort of my own home.  However, as I am sure I would terrify anyone should they see me, I also know that if I catch a glimpse of myself I would be equally repulsed.  I think I will give the nudist thing away after all.  Summer time and the living is HOT.