who got sunburnt today

[nikiwitch]

me!!!!!!!!
despite slapping on loads of suncream my shoulders are the colour of beetroot

[zazen999]

Doh!

During the 80s and 90s when all my chums were turning a lovely shade of brown, I staying in the shade and staying pale and uninteresting.....and slap the sunscreen on at the first sign of sun. I didn't one day in Paris last year and got a burny nose.....

This morning I used my factor 30 before I got dressed....good job too by the sounds of it.

[ardroil]

yup, all burnt here too, after slapping half a ton of the stuff on!!!!

[Two_Sheds]

me!!!!!!!!
despite slapping on loads of suncream my shoulders are the colour of beetroot

Same here.
Factor 25 all over, but patches of my back have burnt. There are funny white shapes amongst the red, so some of the cream worked

[shirlthegirl43]

Not me, been inside ironing all day

[NOG]

I went up early before it got too hot..then did other stuff when it was hot.

[bluemoon]

Doh!

During the 80s and 90s when all my chums were turning a lovely shade of brown, I staying in the shade and staying pale and uninteresting.....and slap the sunscreen on at the first sign of sun. I didn't one day in Paris last year and got a burny nose.....

This morning I used my factor 30 before I got dressed....good job too by the sounds of it.

When my kids were little they'd be the only ones in school who returned after the summer break exactly the same shade as when they'd broken up. 'Don't you go away?' said one mum, voice oozing with false pity. Well, yes, we also have outdoor hobbies and are rarely indoors if it can possibly be helped, but we use sun block and wear light clothing and sun-hats and avoid the worst of the mid-day heat. This same mum had three kids who'd returned from the Canaries 48 hours before school started back, her kids were beetroot red and one had HUGE blisters on both shoulders. Her excuse was that if you didn't come home in that state how would the neighbours know that you'd had a good holiday. . Plenty of people on melanoma wards who've had those sort of 'good holidays', I'm afraid.
I'm off to the lottie in a few minutes to lock away the chickens for the night, then OH and number 2 son are off on a hill-walking/camping trip for three days and I know they'll come back just as pale and interesting as they are today. No 2 son did get caught out on an earlier camping trip, but it was late March and night-time temperatures were forecast to be minus 7C so he'd been more interested in making sure he was warm at night and never even considered the sunblock.

[Mrs Dobby]

We were out in it all day, but were fully covered in beekeepers suits for about 2 hours at the hottest time, so no sunburn here!

[Hilary B]

I got sunburnt (mostly on the shoulders) too often as a child to risk it these days!!!
2 weeks of pain if I wore a shirt, and different pain if I didn't. I don't do seaside holidays any more......

[sewer rat]

I don't tend to burn easily and I suppose working outside all year helps, so I'm quite often tanned (though last year I think I was more rusty than tanned) - at least I have what you could call a "farmers tan" all year - brown face, neck and forearms.

[Snadger]

Anyone for lobster? It usually takes the first two or three days of shirt off and shorts on without any suntan lotion to get the old body hardened to the sun to come in the future hopefully!
Worst part is the calves of my legs where I was kneeling whilst weeding.

A few scalding hot baths should soon sort things out!

[FionaH]

Not me, been inside ironing all day

Oh you poor thing! Bad enough to have to be indoors but ironing is the pits

Ive gone a bit pink but slapped on the factor 30 and sat in the shade

[jackie j]

Living at the seaside we see people all the time getting redder and redder we can tell the holiday makers a mile off by the colour of their skin, Very white with lots of red bits esp when they wear strappy tops. Me I sat at the seaside for an hour watching my daughter rowing no sun cream whilst I had a cream tea yum yum yum. I then sat in the garden still no suncream am I burnt no, brown yes.

[gorgeousgrower]

Factor too low!

I can't believe you're only using factor 25 or 30. It's 50 all the way for me, and I still get a nice colour.

After having a nevus removed last year which turned out to the a basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer) I take no risks.

Also, I don't want my face to look like leather when I'm older so a very high factor on the most vulnerable areas i.e. face, shoulders etc is a no brainer!

[coreopsis]

Nope.Stuck at work I'm afraid
Factor 30 in the bathroom