Riverman
Guru
- Location
- sur de Inglaterra
Lovely weather in Southampton today. Was walking around in a t-shirt and wasn't cold at all.
Ah! The joys of being a Southern Poof ...
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summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It was nice here too ... me in (long) t-shirt sleeves cycling around... then it all went wrong somewhere between 2 and 3 pm ... sun went in, and the strong wind suddenly became a freezing wind....
(still not got the heating on yet ... how can you even think of putting it on in Naples!!!).
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
I laugh at my Scottish Godfather and cousins who seem to take great pride in the fact that they live in a place which is cold as buggery, it's been snowing there already and over Christmas they get about 5 hours of feeble daylight in every 24 hours!
They especially love to tell us how cold and dark it is up in Scotland when I tell them how mild, balmy and almost sub-tropical it is down on the South Coast and how one can often cycle in shorts and a t-shirt well into October and occasionally in November! Indeed, any mention of the fact that it is so mild down here that we can grow certain kinds of hardy palm tree almost sends them into a fit of apoplexy!
It's all in jest, but it does make me wonder at the person who proudly states that where they live is cold and dark and how much they love beating themselves in the knackers with a yule log just because it hurts and they love it ...
Having spent my formative years in much warmer countries than Britain I can still remember my shock and horror at experiencing my first British winter (in Surrey).
Fortunately I have become used to the rain, the cold and even occasionally the snow! The beauty of the British seasons and the lush green countryside is to be appreciated whether in Scotland or the English home counties.
(Still feel more at home in hotter parts of the world)
aberal
Guru
- Location
- Midlothian
Got talking to some Scots on holiday some years ago, and they asked where I was from. When I replied "Yorkshire", one of them said, "Jeeze (or it may have been "Och eye"), I'm from the Highlands, and I was cold in Yorkshire!"
Nancys, the lot of 'em...
West coasters. AKA wusses.....
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
ThePainInSpain
Active Member
- Location
- Malaga, Spain
+1
Couldn't stand all that cold and dark again.
It's getting dark here at around 18:45, horrible.
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
I love the winter in Britain. I love it when it's dark at 4pm and I love it when it's cold but sunny and clear. I love the mists in November and I even rather like the rain. Summer on the other hand means being much too hot and spending three months sneezing and trying not to rub my eyes ... Give me the cold weather any day.
Sorry, Potsy, it's over between us, I'm Rhythm Thief's now.
I'd only add that you can always add layers in the cold but there's only so many you can take off in the summer.
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Living in NE England the disadvantages, cold at times and dark early in winter are vastly out weighed by the advantages. Beautiful countryside and friendly people, by and large.
I went to Essex as a youth to stay with a friend who had moved to live with his father after the death of his mother who had lived in the NE. His father drove us to Southend on Mud, and half way there asked me how I liked the countryside? My reply, totally innocently, was that I hadn't seen any yet. He replied that I was in it and couldn't understand my laughter, there were overhead wires and buildings all over the place. Poor soft Southerner.
I went to Essex as a youth to stay with a friend who had moved to live with his father after the death of his mother who had lived in the NE. His father drove us to Southend on Mud, and half way there asked me how I liked the countryside? My reply, totally innocently, was that I hadn't seen any yet. He replied that I was in it and couldn't understand my laughter, there were overhead wires and buildings all over the place. Poor soft Southerner.
Riverman
Guru
- Location
- sur de Inglaterra
Living in NE England the disadvantages, cold at times and dark early in winter are vastly out weighed by the advantages. Beautiful countryside and friendly people, by and large.
I went to Essex as a youth to stay with a friend who had moved to live with his father after the death of his mother who had lived in the NE. His father drove us to Southend on Mud, and half way there asked me how I liked the countryside? My reply, totally innocently, was that I hadn't seen any yet. He replied that I was in it and couldn't understand my laughter, there were overhead wires and buildings all over the place. Poor soft Southerner.
Essex is hardly a good example of the English countryside, for a start it's bloody flat and will probably be the first bit of the UK to go underwater once sea level rise really takes hold. Besides, Essex is actually a bit North to me lol, having lived in Devon, Hampshire and Dorset.
There's plenty of great bits of countryside up North but so is there down South. Personally, if you exclude London I find any city from the midlands and above way too populated. Living in some cities and towns on the South Coast is almost like living in the countryside.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It makes your naples stand out when it gets cold, doesn' tit?
Well... to keep warm before turning on the heating ... I use loads of layers... hundreds of them...
I'd only add that you can always add layers in the cold but there's only so many you can take off in the summer.
And that is why summer is so nice ... no need to look like the Michelin man (or woman).
It's my natural look and I've spent 40-odd years perfecting it so I can wear it all year round.
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
It's my natural look and I've spent 40-odd years perfecting it so I can wear it all year round.
I'm glad you said it before I did norm baby
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
It's my natural look and I've spent 40-odd years perfecting it so I can wear it all year round.
Now I feel guilty
... its not as if I'm a stick insect in the summer ... just not buried under 100 layers .Similar threads
