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Any tips for coping in a heatwave?
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They actually came through with the washing machine, but now the oven is broken, so I guess that's priority no 1 right now.
What do you have at the moment to mitigate the heat? Do you have fans?
Do make a mutual aid post about it too if you just have the spoons.
Your situation is very much on my mind also and I wish I could help more, but just remember that you did not choose any of this and are worthy of aid, support and solidarity always. But I understand how hard it must be to have to keep doing that.
Sink the TERF island ruling class, it's disgusting how people are treated there.
Thank you. We do have fans at least. I've got a mutual aid post going for an oven repair right now, no responses yet. I often fantasise about the ruling class getting the French or Russian treatment. Those people even haunt my dreams. I've had a dream about Rachel Reeves screaming at me and one about Boris Johnson telling me to get off benefits and back into work.
Thank god Im so happy for you. I feel like a huge asshole/like i'm just pretending to have solidarity when i waste money on all kinds of shit and then never have any to contribute to others, but I started crying next to my partner when I read that post. I've read a lot of your posts and I hate how hard things have been for you and I'm seriously so happy that you got that taken care of. It sucks that now your oven needs fixing but still, at least you got something fixed.
Depending on how much it costs to fix the oven, you could maybe look into an air fryer or other countertop convection oven to cook with in the meantime? I don't know if free returns are handled any differently in the UK but if you've got a bit of $$$ maybe you could get something on Amazon, then return it before the return window is up?
It's just a small electrical fault apparently, the engineer quoted £160, and long-term it will need doing anyway. I just feel kind of numb about everything because life just feels like a neverending volley of challenges that are technically small yet impossible for me to overcome without help. CS Lewis wrote in his book The Screwtape Letters that the way to break a human's spirit is to give them endless small challenges and frustrations and he's absolutely right.
I don't actually have any cash at all to get anything so i don't think I can get an air fryer but thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah that's what i kinda expected since you only just got the washer fixed, but still, something to keep in mind in case you manage to get some more donations together :/
I wish I could help but i basically have nothing right now and live on the endless grace of my partner who is starting a job that pays 70% of her former wage
Everyone's hard up and it seems like it's only going to get worse.