Winter in England?

Sambostar

I do like that carnal feeling of being closer to nature, a log fire, easier breathing, not getting sweaty and feeling like you have to fight harder and try a little harder to survive after the first few cold weeks with clear skies.

Although it does soon wear off when reality kicks in and you read the gas meter reading, or the boiler breaks down again, or you're working with a headtorch under the Transit outside in the dark with an Easterly gale baring sleet or freezing rain up your arse or the white finger in your right hand turns blue, swells up to twice it's normal size and cracks on all your digit joints or getting the Transit stuck on a pathetic patch of ice because it doesn't even have a LSD and you can barely tell dusk from daytime and then there the road salt which turns the Transit to orange dust.

Yeah the first few weeks of winter are great until you remember what it's all about again. 

sticker

Soup ! 

speshul91

Empty snow covered car parks and a good handbrake. 

RaymondLin

English winter are a walk in the park, it's like Autumn to some parts of the world!

And I am from Hong Kong.

axisus

You endure the winter then the summer is your reward.

or if your a glass half empty person, life is great then it turns to sh*t. Repeat.

holnrew

Looking at rough seas

quarky

Christmas!

Ditto on the good running weather.

Sambostar

Right on cue.  The boiler isn't firing up, hopefully a few sucks on the vac tube and a bang on the fan should do it for a few more weeks, most of the hot air goes outside anyway.  FFS.

Sporky

axisus said:

You endure the winter then the summer is your reward.

Summer is the worst season. Autumn has good temperatures and all the lovely turning leaves. Winter is all cold and ace. Spring warms up and has all the new growth.

Summer is sweat and misery by comparison.

AliGorie

octatonic said:

Are you having some sort of mental breakdown?

the longer darkness and cold allow me more time to work at my playing and I dearly need that.
I  enter each spring as a new musician (and some new tunes).

Sambostar

Emp_Fab

Winter is shit.  Summer is lovely.  Any season where it's raining or cold can go fuck itself.

scrumhalf

Winter's okay. We don't get the horrible sticky humidity that seems to accompany warm weather these days. However, I suffer from cold hands and feet, and the knees aren't happy about stairs in the cold.

Sambostar

Damn I'm so glad I got London in before i was hammered.  Genius.

stimpsonslostson

It's rubbish & experiencing it mans I'm visiting my inlaws. 
Winter here in Scotland is pretty good, provided it's not raining heavily- which it doesn't do half as often as you'd expect. 
Cold, crisp & the potential for proper snow. I once asked my boss how deep it had to get for us to have a snow day. "Waist deep seems reasonable". Bloody Canadians. 

RobDavies

I wouldn't mind if we had a proper winter here in the South - I love it when it snows.  
But you know full well that the next six months will be 7' Celsius and constant drizzle.  

I'd like to move somewhere that has harsh winters and hot and sunny summers...... any ideas?

Sporky

RobDavies said:

I'd like to move somewhere that has harsh winters and hot and sunny summers...... any ideas?

Middle of a big continent ought to get you both of those.

stimpsonslostson

RobDavies said:

I wouldn't mind if we had a proper winter here in the South - I love it when it snows.  
But you know full well that the next six months will be 7' Celsius and constant drizzle.  

I'd like to move somewhere that has harsh winters and hot and sunny summers...... any ideas?

Toronto is good for this. 

TheMarlin

I'm cold!!

tone1

Winter on Dartmoor...Bring it on