I live in England so I don't usually have a problem with hot weather.

August is the main summer holiday here but in recent years it has typically been wet and grey, which is very frustrating for all the children on school holidays.

Most English houses don't have air conditioning. My wife finds this quite surprising as she is from Australia and is used to having it in every house. She is pleased when I turn the heating on in the winter though!

When it is hot, we put a fan in each room. We get the big one and the children get the smaller ones, which I think is fair enough.

We also try to stay in the shade, have lots of ice in our drinks and put up a small pool in the garden for the children.

We have some fantastic phrases for hot weather. Most of them come from words for different types of cooking.

British people start using these even when the weather is quite warm not just when it is very hot.

Here are some examples:

- It's scorching!
- It's blazing hot!
- It's absolutely roasting today!
- It's boiling outside. 

There are also some idioms you can use, such as:

- It's like a sauna outside.
- It's so hot you could fry an egg on the road.
- I'm sweating like a pig! 

I didn't know pigs could sweat!