I mentioned before that us Brits like to moan about the weather and are never satisfied! Summer started off as a bit of a damp squib, but today was a balmy 25 degrees Celsius, (around 77 Fahrenheit) and we had a couple of thunderstorms chucked in to mix it up a bit. so it all amounted to a very humid and muggy day with bursts of beautiful hot sunshine
A couple of weeks ago my boss sent my to the laundry as one of the pens had leaked in my dress pocket leaving an unsightly small black blob over my left boob, and she wanted me to go and get it changed. I didn’t dare tell her that the stain on that dress was pretty old and the mess I had made on my dress the day before was much worse. Instead of leaving the ink stain alone (it was one of the gel pens) I decided to rub at it with an antibacterial wipe, thereby spreading this huge black mass over my entire boob!
I went to the laundry and sweet-talked the assistant into letting me have the one dress that was there (not many people wear the same uniform as me) and she put in an order for 3 more which would take a few days to arrive.
That was fine. I dropped off the other dresses the next day and was off last week anyway. I went back to collect my new dresses on Tuesday but was met by a very sour assistant who was not happy that I had managed to swap all my dresses, and moaned that her colleague ‘had only been there 5 mins and didn’t know what she was doing!’ Anyway, she gleefully told me that mine hadn’t arrived and they didn’t have any in my size (which she decided to say out loud).
Great, that left me with one dress. I went back again after a while. still not in. I wore the dress in yesterday and although I did manage to get it washed, was too lazy to iron it this morning so wore my tunic and trousers. It was unbearably hot up on that ward today. Most of us had sweat literally dropping off us (what a shame that fat doesn’t melt off in the heat). I wished I had ironed that dress!
The nice assistant from the laundry phoned me up to let me know that my dresses will not be ready until 17th JULY, for Christ’s sake! When I got home I had a lovely heat rash around my ankle just above my socks. Nice! Looks like that one dress is going to get a lot of wear over the next month and I am going to have to stop being too lazy to iron it I might even have to hope that the weather is grotty again!
When you find yourself complaining about the weather, you know you’re a proper Brit!
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Yes indeed! Through and through!
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Oh I am so sorry! The 17th of July is so FARRRRR! Gah! Enjoy your laundry and ironing — both HOT jobs!
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Ha ! I know, I will get crosser and crosser by the time I’m finished!
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I hate being hot. I really feel for you.
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🙂
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Poor you!!! I’m not great in the heat either!
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I just get hot and bothered!
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It’s started getting warm here too. No uniforms for me but I gained enough weight over the winter to have a definite clothing shortage!
I’m so sorry you’ve got to wait so long for your new uniforms! I detest ironing so much that the dogs are petrified of the rarely seen ironing board.
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mid-July seems an awfully long time for the dresses. Sorry to hear of your inconvenience. Maybe hope for cooler weather until then. 🙂
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Yes I baked and sweated again today, but as I am off tomorrow, I hope that it IS nice! 🙂
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Hope something good happens and the mid-July delivery is moved way UP. 🙂
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Me too! Thank you 🙂
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Wow….that is such a long time. I can’t believe you have to iron…something I consider a fate worse than death! Just not right. I hope for cooler temps for you and lots of days off!
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Ha Ha! Oh I can’t stand wearing anything that isn’t ironed! 🙂
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I suspect the people out here in the Midwest US could give you Brits a run for your money when it comes to complaining about the weather.
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Ha Ha, well it is our national pastime, so they must be good! 🙂
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Really hot weather just makes everyday routines just that much more difficult. So sorry, Judy!
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Yes, it seems to completely sap my already limited energy! 🙂
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Oh geez. I have often romanticized about wearing a uniform, kind of longing for the professional image it might give me. However, I take it all back after reading this. Geez. The pain of trying to get some new dresses and the total frustration of not getting to dress for the temperature and your comfort. I will send you comfort from my t-shirt, baggy pants, and flip flops!
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Now you have made me jealous! Even the dresses we have are very thick cotton plus of course we have to wear black tights (they might let us go without when it gets really hot) but it is still better than wearing my trousers!
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My mother would say that in Britain, because we are an island, we have weather and everyone else has a climate. So you now what you’re going to get while we have no clue. Hope it cools off on working days…
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That sounds about right to me! Thanks 🙂
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Great memories these
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They won’t be in until the 17th July? That’s a heck of a big dress they’re making. Do you really have ink all over your boobies or did you mean the dress?
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Ha Ha! I know I have a big bum but really!!! The ink splodged all over the pocket in the dress which then leaked through to the boob!
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Talk about blue nips!
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Ha Ha! Hey have you got a word for me for tomorrow to play with?
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yer nips! I’m just going offline and ‘all worded’ out!
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Ha Ha! Ok. bye for now 🙂
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Oh and this was another cheeky post hiding from me. The pic at the top of your blog of the phone box, is there someone inside the box?
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Yes, well-spotted! It is Miss Hap! 🙂
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I thought it was a ghostly shadow
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Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I am Judy, in my (very) early fifties and decided that life definitely gets more interesting as it goes on! I am a wife and a mum and have just finished University as a Registered Nurse, after having worked as an Associate Practitioner in the NHS. I am also a poet and the author of my debut book, 'Rhymes of the Times.' I love to laugh, and I love rhyming words too, so I joined the two together, and my book was born. I am currently working on another book in the series also. I am a prolific blogger and enjoy writing funny stories, anecdotes, and anything really that takes my fancy.
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