feel the burn
What I didn’t mention about yesterday is that I got horrifically sunburnt. I will try and get a photo that isn’t indecent.
Pulling denim jeans on this morning for my bike ride to work was A.G.O.N.Y! (But my new Bridgestone tyres are soft and awesome, stickier on the road so a better ride).
I am in huge amounts of pain. So bad that tonight in The Falcon at Clapham Junction, I wiggled out of my bra in the middle of the pub because it was rubbing so harshly against my poor red skin! 
I praise the Lord for Sudocreme. It’s one of those items everyone seems to have in their medicine box although no idea why we bought it in the first place. Still, it treats sunburn.
I have used so much aftersun, it is unreal.
The Mechanic’s mother said to get in a cool bath with some white vinegar in it. She said it strings at first but it works. As a mother of four children and an expert at home remedies and saving money, she is probably right, but there was no white vinegar in the Sainsbury’s at CJ tonight so it will have to wait til tomorrow.
Hydrocortisone cream also works, and that is a key ingredient in Daktacort so I’ve got a little of that on my poor legs as I can’t put Sudocreme on them as got no light pant trousers to cover them up with.
Dozing by the pool during a heatwave = a very bad idea
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I’m so excited that we can talk tyres now, how sad is that?
isn’t milk also supposed to work? i dunno i only get sunburnt near the equator. tons of cocoa butter when it goes down though hope you stop hurting soon xx
get some Lush ‘Sympathy for the Skin’ cream. Put it in the fridge for a while. Slather it on. Suburn is better the next day
Vinegar works AWESOME to pull the heat out of the burn. If you can handle the smell (and the sting) putting it on your skin directly with a cotton ball works quite well also. That’s what I usually do the night after a sun burn.