Hot days strategies: being active in the early hours before 10 or 11; doing any cooking for the day; watering plants indoors and out. If there is anything strenuous that needs doing, it has to get done before the heat goes up and I sit down. Around 10, it's time to close curtains and windows and doors, to preserve what cool there is indoors. When it gets really hot later on, it helps quite a lot to wet down my head which would gratify, if they knew, all those people who have ever thought I... Sign in to see full entry.