Lee Boyce
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But getting one of these air conditioning units installed, typically people do have them in one room, bedroom or home office, for example.
It can cost anywhere between one and three grand to get it installed.
And then if you're getting a multi-split system, two to four rooms,
You're talking between three and seven grand.
If you're talking the whole house, it can cost eight to 15 grand.
So you're probably not really worrying about the cost of putting it on for, let's say, in total two months of the entire year.
I've got a pedestal fan, had it from John Lewis for about 10 years.
I get to use it about two days of the year before it gets stolen by my seven-year-old who, you know, sets up like a bunker in a room, you know,
putting a fan and just sort of you know really going to town on the heat which she she has said this week that there's a heat wave about 400 times and she oh bless her what she's been doing you know like um like ice packs you get uh you know if you get an injury you've got a couple of those like gel well ice packs she's been swapping them around and making sure there's always one in the freezer and then she uses it and sets up a fan and puts out and i'm like
Oh, man, like you are not going to be able to cope with a heat wave in the future.
We've been doing what we call a family passeggiata, which is Italian for an evening stroll, which is, you know, in Italy, you know, especially Italian cities, they don't tend to have gardens or they have very small courtyards.
And that's why you see people really well turned out in an evening going for a stroll around their local neighborhood.
We've been making passeggiata.
a cool thing in my little pocket of estates George we're making it happen we've been strolling around at sort of seven o'clock well looking good dressed well me and my crocs we're having an evening stroll Lee stop being posh
Having an evening stroll around the little country park.
And it's very, very nice.
And I love the heat.
I love the hot temperatures.
And I think sunny days are a blessing.
But yeah, we keep cool by doing things at home.