Brandane
Miles cannot be done unless moving!
- Location
- Costa Clyde.
Or you're obviously a softy southerner who doesn't know the meaning of cold and rain.
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Or you're obviously a softy southerner who doesn't know the meaning of cold and rain.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I am a northerner who moved to the south with work. Maybe you are the softie northerner. Wearing waterproofs when it is sunny! 🤣
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Brandane
Miles cannot be done unless moving!
- Location
- Costa Clyde.
Sometimes, yes. Because as has been pointed out, sun in Cumbria, even in mid June, does not necessarily mean it isn't cold! And rain is never far away.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I take your softy Southerner and raise you one proper northerner!
Brandane
Miles cannot be done unless moving!
- Location
- Costa Clyde.
Yes it's all relative. When MtM says he is a northerner who moved south for work, he could mean he moved from Manchester
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yes it's all relative. When MtM says he is a northerner who moved south for work, he could mean he moved from Manchester
Regardless of so called “how northern are you” discussions. You are the one demonstrating fair weather tendencies and softness, wearing a waterproof in the June mid day sun. You must wear a full on Arctic survival suit when there is a bit of drizzle!
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Elybazza61
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Hopefully they will do something at a busy roundabout out of Ely ; at the moment you have to contend with fast moving traffic or use the crossing that makes you try and get over a two lane carriageway that is fine if peeps in both lanes and paying attention, not so if one line stops and the other doesn't notice.
Probably won't be a bridge like the above but crossing lights;
https://www.camcycle.org.uk/blog/2025/03/act-now-for-a-safe-crossing-between-ely-and-witchford/
Annoyingly they re-did the roundabout not too long ago putting in a feeder lane but obviously no-one thought about how more dangerous it made it to cross.
Probably won't be a bridge like the above but crossing lights;
https://www.camcycle.org.uk/blog/2025/03/act-now-for-a-safe-crossing-between-ely-and-witchford/
Annoyingly they re-did the roundabout not too long ago putting in a feeder lane but obviously no-one thought about how more dangerous it made it to cross.
OP
OP
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Aye, in 2026 not just June?
Been the worst June I can remember, and there's been a lot of bad ones.
I fear we are not going to get a summer this year (again).
It was claggy & 13°C real feel here yesterday in SE Lakes. A long way from feeling June-like.
presta
Legendary Member
I've seen snow on the Scafells in June, even at 1300' on Silver How I was wearing a fleece jacket.
I used to be like that in my teens and twenties. Even after the recurring back pain started it took another 15 years before I realised it was the cold that was causing it.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Its 28 celsiuses outside. Thinking of removing my cardigan.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Exactly, that is shorts and T-shirt temps. If we all waited till it gets over 20C feels like; then we would harder ever take our longs and jackets off.
OP
OP
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Well, I can assure you it was cold in the village yesterday. The few cyclists we had through the village had jackets on as did the various walkers that trundled by.
It was cold indoors and at one point we put the CH on. At least 3 wood burners were alight across the village, too.
To quote Bruce Springsteen; you must indeed be "Tougher than the Rest".
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
A good pair of thermal Y fronts is what you need.
Or a well broken in pair that gives off warmth as the crusted biological matter decomposes.
Or a well broken in pair that gives off warmth as the crusted biological matter decomposes.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Well, I can assure you it was cold in the village yesterday. The few cyclists we had through the village had jackets on as did the various walkers that trundled by.
It was cold indoors and at one point we put the CH on. At least 3 wood burners were alight across the village, too.
To quote Bruce Springsteen; you must indeed be "Tougher than the Rest".
It is not about toughness at “feels like” 13C, which in real temp terms is 17-18C. If you are ice diving in your budgie smugglers, that would require a certain mental toughness.
matticus
Guru
Astonishing thread: who knew that different people feel the cold more/less?!?
