Don't touch meeeee!!!!!

[dawny]

You are not on your own ginger, My nose looks like a balisher beacon when I been out in the sun, sadly the rest of me looks like a crab - stick pink & white

[Patchninja]

I have skin like an aspirin so Mr patchninja pushes me into the shade at regular intervals. He's also conveniently filled the garden with palm trees which provide me with lots of shady spots to choose from

[Alison]

Was good this year and even remembered to do the bottom of my back which I burnt badly this time last year when bending over. Now have very interesting tan lines on my back which show with a brown bit at the top and bottom and an expanse of white inbetween. Perhaps as well that I don't do bikini holidays as I'd look very odd. Did think I'd gone a lot browner until I discovered that a lot of it was sweaty dirt which came off in the shower!

[Flummery]

Out gardening in the heat yesterday with our In Bloom group. We were all wearing loads of barrier lotion AND our Prat Hats. Looked alarming but we didn't burn!

[bobleponge]

A sultry 38 here today and yesterday, fortunately having spent so much time in sunny areas I have skin like leather and go very brown very quickly.
Yes I know its not good etc etc, but I've never used sun cream in my life, and I guess any damage has probably already been done, so dont intend to start now.

[shirlthegirl43]

I have been staying out of the sun as much as possible. I don't use sunscreen and tan (don't burn easily) eventually. I stay out of the sun because I hate being sweaty/sticky (makes me grumpy as all hell) and gives me a headache

[Two_Sheds]

For those of you who cant reach and have no one to do your back ....

... apply the cream to the back of your hands, then you can reach quite far

[kirsty b]

apparently people are going to hospital with sunburn ... good to know our NHS is being used well

gggggrrrrrrrrr - filling up beds that proper poorly people could be using? Or just blocking A&E for hours? Can't see them getting much sympathy TBH.

I now wear factor 50, have fair skin and burn soooo easily

[sewer rat]

Given the nature of my work, I have an all-year round Farmers Tan - from biceps down and from the neck up ! (Though last year I think it was more probably rust !!)

[selfraising]

Yep shoulders and neck and that was with factor 40 on!

[CaroltheCarrot]

I have learnt my lesson from previous years of attempting to get a tan and now slap on factor 50 as soon as the sun shines its face,dont go through much of it up here

[Comfreyfan]

Another unburnt one here! A couple of years ago we were in Ireland and discovered a sunscreen called Parasol - it's a liquid that you apply just once a day. OH is a freckly red head who, like HW, burns in moonlight and hasn't burnt once since he's been using it, not even after a full day fishing, so it absolutely does work!

[janeyo]

I have come up in horrible itchy heat bumps today and not been in the sin at all.
I find some sun creams bring me out in bump too, think it is the parfum in them which reacts with my skin and the sun.

People who are not silly in the sun can end up in casualty with sunburn/ sun stroke too. My cousin had a 10 minute stroll on a lochside in Scotland last year in early May (I think) and ended up having to have some silver cream stuff from A&E and had huge blisters come up on his shoulders which meant he couldn't drive home for an extra day! And a more sensible man you really couldn't normally ever meet. He still says it wasn't really sunny, more windy, so just goes to show how it can catch you out.

[piskieinboots]

People who are not silly in the sun can end up in casualty with sunburn/ sun stroke too.

Oh so true!

I did a 'stroll' along Sunderland pier last year, t'was the dunking of FiL's ashes - it was a lovely day, it was Easter - I got hefty sunstroke to the point of shivering and being sick!! ...and I'm quite weathered!

[Patchninja]

Glad I'm not the only one. I got sunstroke on a chilly day in Norfolk once. Was sick for 3 days!