I've just seen the weather forecast for London.
You are enjoying a balmy 6-7 degrees and are no doubt lying back, strumming your guitars are eating grapes.
Up here in the North, it's just risen to 0. It was -3 this morning.

It's typical of Northerners without the feck to move south to be so nesh about a bit of frost.

We've got rat bait in the garden, so the dog's allowed into it only on a lead. So at 7 am, in my dressing gown and in at least 7 degrees of frost, I stood there for 10 mins while he took his time doing his biz. We're made of stern stuff in the Cotswolds.

As for balmy: the frost's still on the grass, even though the sun's now out.

I have workmates who haven't made it here today due to being snowed in.

I am in and wearing the same type of clothes I've been wearing since the second week in September - i.e. my winter clothes

caroline_edinburgh wrote: "I have workmates who haven't made it here today due to being snowed in."

Isn't it wonderful that people tend to get snowed in at home, and not at work?

Our reaction to a slight chill and perhaps a twice-annual dusting of slush is embarrassing. I hope not many Fodorites from Canada or Scandinavia see this. They do winter slightly better.

Greetings to all from a frosty but sunny Wiltshire.

Cotswolds indeed!
I was born and brought up in East Anglia where the wind comes straight from Siberia with nothing to stop it in between.

A friend in Winnipeg (he calls it Winterpeg) mailed me laughing about the BBC site's reference to Arctic weather conditions - it is -16 there with the wind chill making it feel like -24.
Now that is cold!
Here we are enjoyng a bit of sun, and it is about 4 degrees. I keep hoping for some serious cold. You can keep the snow though.

Stfc, Jossr, et al:


stfc says: >>>Greetings to all from a frosty but sunny Wiltshire.<<<

I reply:

Greetings from a sunny and warm WILSHIRE
(Wilshire Blvd, L.A., that is!)

Devil made me do it....aaargh!

stu t.

We are currently like Winterpeg (but live WAY north). It is currently -16C and windchill of -32C. However, this is warm for this time of the year so I cannot complain (yet)!

I spent most of the afternoon wandering around a rather bleak SE London housing estate where the wind whistles between the blocks.

I think my gonads have vanished for good.

In any case I thought that Northern monkeys were made of stronger stuff. -3C is T shirt weather in Newcastle.