Weather fine, sea warm, situation strange

[hawkwing_lb]

The weather has been hot and sunny for the last few days. I have mild sunburn from taking too much advantage of the fine weather before it disappears again. The sea yesterday, when I went for my first dip of the year, was surprisingly warm. Well, it was once I took the plunge, anyway.

I've just spied a rabbit in the building site behind our house. No wonder the cat's been meeping and hopping the fence. Poor rabbit. Poor cat, too. He's useless at hunting.

The sun's quite scrambled my brains. Hopefully it'll last a day or two longer, and then we can look back at a week of good weather from a summer of grey cloud.

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[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

::boggles::

You actually had enough sun to burn you? Wow. I am impressed. :-D

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

More than enough. Worse, I went out again today without sun cream. Purple is not a colour that looks well on me, even in very small patches. :-)

Don't know if it'll last much longer. Probably not, alas.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Alas, if I get enough sun to burn me, I also get enough sun to make me sick (so-called "sun poisoning", rather flu-like only flu with a sunburn). I once had a red swath across the face, like a warrior, and nothing else. I ended up vomiting for several hours. Sensitive, moi? Nevair! *cough*

Sun cream is my friend. 60+ SPF, or better. ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

That's pretty terrible. I had a friend who suffered similarly. Worse, maybe, because skin cancer ran in her family.

I'm fortunate in that I burn and then tan. Very fortunate.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Oh, skin cancer's shown up in both parents by now. More than once. At least Dad (being the fair-skinned Irish-American lad that he is) has a routine visit to the dermatologist, and so it's caught early. Mom (being the olive-skinned Eastern European-American lass that she is) had the surprise of finding a small lesion but also caught it early.

After two years in the Caribbean, I was a light shade of beige. Very light. Just a tad darker than my brother (who has mom's olive-skinned genes) in the middle of the winter. At least I could point to my wrist and demonstrate the stripe from my watch strap.

So despite the teasing from my partner about wearing too much on the beach, I'll be wearing the long sleeves and sun cream and the big hats. ;-)