We are due record temperatures for the next two days (low 40 deg C), I know a lot of you live in hot countries and a lot of you in Europe are also suffering at the moment. Any top tips to keep cool?
I ran our tabletop ice maker for most of yesterday and have 2 large bags of ice in the freezer. I might take a deck chair and sit in the frozen/chilled food aisle in the local supermarket, went in today, it was wonderful 
Iâm still getting a cool breeze, as ever. Summer really hasnât arrived here yet, and I doubt it ever will, this year around, at:
54° 28â 8.205" N 9° 50â 18.408" E
I know, theyâre predicting 31 °C here for Wednesday, yet all I keep getting from forecasters lately are hypes and attention-catching headlinesâŚ
Living by the sea, where I am all those forecasts usually do not come true.
I live 80 miles (128 km ish) from the coast, Sheffield is 53.3811° N, 1.4701° W, so you are a bit further north than me!! I grew up really close to the coast - miss it a lot.
You have a very beautiful beach. I miss something like that here at the foot of the Erzgebirge. Maybe that will come to us one day âŚ
You mean, hoping for the sea to come to the Erzgebirge?!
I can testify as being strictly against that one!!!
I can empathize with that!
With the Ostsee from one side and the Nordsee from the other, itâs a bit awkward âŚ
With the left side of the old safe-harbor being âfront-yardâ of my home, I am personally most welcome by all who are running their taverns, bars, and brothels (just joking).
Nowadays it is strictly a tourist site anymore, very much âfamily-enabledâ, and wokeness-tuned, where it used to be quite different in the olden days, with age-correspondent habits, such as beheadings, etc.:
Soak a tea towl in cold water and wrap around the back of your neck
Air conditioning, margarita and the pool, anything that can get you to the ocean. . .
Good luck. Iâve had as hot as 48*C here where I live.
I also live heatwave prone region of India.
But season had changed here and its raining wildly.
The easy things which we did :
. This is the simplest thing to do in summer.
Others had given the suggestions which are made by their experience, hence are extremely viable.
Keep cool 
and enjoy
Same lol
Best I can say is to keep out of direct sunlight, keep a fan near by, and if in a home with no AC you need to setup fans to keep air circulating.
Stay hydrated, keep air moving, and stay safe.
Wear socks (the thicker the better), wet your feet with socks on in water.
I am sure you will feel so cold after some time!
Try and let me know.
If you wear wet socks you will enjoy watching it burn. 
Iâm living in the south of the UK, but have lived in a lot hotter/more humid without AC or indeed electricity - so basically, do what you need to do in the cool of the morning, walk/move slower and more gracefully than before, walk in the shade if possible, and a cool damp cloth wiped over your arms/face/neck goes a long way! And lastly, the temps been hot for a week, so your body has already had some time to adapt, so it ainât as bad as the daily mail makes out, but then again, nothing is as bad as the DM makes out.
I would suggest a look at âswamp coolersâ for details - not an air conditioner, but a relief anyway!
Think a wet tea towel, being dripped on from an ice water container (with small hole in bottom?) and having a fan blowing through it. Surprisingly effective at producing a temperature dropâŚ
