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I feel your pain .. it wasn't this hot when I was laid up with both arm and leg immobile, but you have my sympathies.

Ice bags, hanging in front of the fan - and don't forget our favourite frozen peas.
Have a look at the KoolPac stuff on Amazon - squeeze to activate ice packs (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Koolpak/page/2391A9A3-EB0A-43B8-92CF-FFD...)

If you want to get back on the bike, you will ... just don't rush it

To be fair, Road.cc appear to have copied verbatim from the Euro Weekly News article linked. The original news story on Team Cofidis' website is in French but it would appear the French for an ablation is 'une ablation' so really no excuses for getting that one wrong...

I'd guess after having an atrium removed it would be pretty tough to get back into competitive cycling.

About to go out (central London) for an unavoidable 25kms (well not strictly speaking unavoidable but damned if I'm getting a bus or train in this weather). I shall be interested to see how my new invention works: empty catfood sachets filled with water, sealed with gaffer tape and frozen overnight, one in each jersey pocket. Yeah well, I bet they mocked Thomas Edison too...

Don't come whining to us if you get attacked and eaten by cats who think you are some sort of cat food flavoured ice cream.

Explains why this happened. 

Mungecrundle wrote:

Don't come whining to us if you get attacked and eaten by cats who think you are some sort of cat food flavoured ice cream.

Already upset my three who saw me getting pouches out of the fridge and thought they were getting an unexpectedly early tea.

Rendel Harris wrote:

About to go out (central London) for an unavoidable 25kms (well not strictly speaking unavoidable but damned if I'm getting a bus or train in this weather). I shall be interested to see how my new invention works: empty catfood sachets filled with water, sealed with gaffer tape and frozen overnight, one in each jersey pocket. Yeah well, I bet they mocked Thomas Edison too...

Youre better off using these empty juice pouches - They are more water tight.

we use them as extra icepacks for the fridge.

That's a good idea… although I did find an extra advantage to the imperfect seal, which was that as the ice melted any time I wanted to have some extra cooling I could reach back, press on a pocket and get a nice squirt of cold water down my back! 

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LOL! Nice one!

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What, no Camelback?

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16º C at 8am on the way to work, 35º C on the way home at 5pm. It wasn't quite as unbearable as anticipated but neither would I describe it as comfortable.

Simon E wrote:

16º C at 8am on the way to work, 35º C on the way home at 5pm. It wasn't quite as unbearable as anticipated but neither would I describe it as comfortable.

Certainly in London (sorry can't remember if you're a Londoner, think you might be?) the heat was mitigated by very much lower than usual traffic levels this evening, so the reduction in hot fumes and being surrounded by hot engines, as well as not having to stop quite so often, made it not much worse than a 28° day with normal traffic I thought. But I agree, not exactly comfy and I was certainly glad to get home and under a coldish shower.

Rendel Harris wrote:

(sorry can't remember if you're a Londoner, think you might be?) the heat was mitigated by very much lower than usual traffic levels this evening

Interesting that the lack of vehicles made such a difference.

I'm not a Londoner but a Welsh ex-pat in Shropshire.

I've just looked through my records and below are the dates when temperature at 5pm (RAF Shawbury weather station) was above 26° C. Purely anecdotal.

29/06/09    27
02/07/09    27

12/07/13    27
01/08/13    29

30/06/15    28

19/07/16    32
23/08/16    27

19/06/17    28
21/06/17    27

26/06/18    28
28/06/18    27
02/07/18    27

23/07/19    30

24/06/20    28
25/06/20    29
31/07/20    27
07/08/20    28

19/07/21    29
20/07/21    27
21/07/21    28
06/09/21    27

11/07/22    29
18/07/22    35

Simon E wrote:

Interesting that the lack of vehicles made such a difference.

It was really noticeable during lockdown just how much cooler the streets were. On busy London streets one's often completely enveloped with cars on every side, all reflecting the sun off their glass and metal, then add in exhaust gases at around 200°C and the heat off the engines, hot brake discs etc and it's like being wrapped in bacofoil and then having dozens of industrial hairdryers pointed at one. Trying to stay off the main drags in this weather but for some things, like crossing the river, they are unavoidable. I envy you your chance to get out into the blue remembered hills!

A police and crime commissioner who had pledged to crack down on speeding has been given a six-month driving ban after being caught breaking the limit five times in 12 weeks

The Lancashire PCC 'Communications Team' is all over Lancashire local media urging people dissatisfied with Lancashire Constabulary responses to reports (these are simply No-Responses) to write to the PCC. When you do, there is, unsurprisingly, No Response

She tried the old exceptional hardship - visiting daughter in hospital, judge told her to piss off and get her husband to give her a lift - it's not that hard to ban after all,  is it?

Yes, the Beak did well:
"The PCC, who was elected to the post in May 2021, was caught speeding in a Mercedes and a Lexus with a personalised number plate...
...The district judge dismissed Henry's application to keep her driving licence due to "exceptional hardship".

Speeding isn't murder (until you kill someone) but had she been caught, say, shoplifting on numerous occassions, I doubt there would be any question about her standing down from her position as Police & Crime Commissioner.

That she even thinks she has any duty to continue in that office tells us more about her own morality with regard to the bloated salary that comes with the job or her view, in common with many drivers, that speeding isn't really a proper crime.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/18/tory-police-boss-gets-driving-ban-for-bre...

Quote:

Henry was captured over the speed limit twice near a primary school in Daybrook, Nottingham, as well as roads in Chilwell, Beeston and on the city’s A610.

Speed cameras clocked the PCC’s speed as high as 40mph in a 30mph zone, with other excess speeds recorded at 35mph and 38mph.

Imposing a £2,450 fine as well as disqualifying her for six months at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday, District Judge Leo Pyle said of the offences: ‘What they show is that you are driving at consistent speeds above the speed limits.’

I think it is germane to mention that she's a tory.

Miller wrote:

I think it is germane to mention that she's a tory.

And that she's married to a Tory MP...

brooksby wrote:

Miller wrote:

I think it is germane to mention that she's a tory.

And that she's married to a Tory MP...

If it looks like corruption and smells like corruption...

ChrisB200SX wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Miller wrote:

I think it is germane to mention that she's a tory.

And that she's married to a Tory MP...

If it looks like corruption and smells like corruption...

In all fairness, it probably came as a bit of a shock to discover that laws can apply to the friends'n'relations of Tory MPs...

Probably was trying to escape dealing with an alleged corrupt force over the Alex Belfield situation