Mrs Binners, who’s as northern as it’s possible to be, has got her ‘big coat’ out for walking down to the pub for the footy in a bit
I’m also swapping my flat cap for a woolly hat
Shits getting real, yo
Winter is coming*
* unless you’re from Newcastle and thus completely immune from anything above -45
I can't believe that it's taken me until right now to connect "winter" and "Jon SNOW". Four fox hake.
who’s as northern as it’s possible to be, has got her ‘big coat’ out for walking down to the pub f
Soft, southern, shandy-drinking... 😜😜😂
* unless you’re from Newcastle and thus completely immune from anything above -45
Edit:
I can’t believe that it’s taken me until right now to connect “winter” and “Jon SNOW”. Four fox hake.
Shakes head in disappointment 😢🤣
Errmmm - winter does not start until the midwinter solstice. 3 weeks away yet 🙂
winter does not start until the mid winter solstice
Hmmm...
I think you’ll find that winter starts when ‘The Big Coat’ has to come out
It’s effing freezing out there!
Rumour has it simonbarnes still sleeps with his window open in an icebath.
winter does not start until the winter solstice.
Meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and ends on 28th Feb, astronomical minter starts Dec 22nd (ish) and finishes March 21st (ish). So to keep winter short it's best to start it astronomically and finish it meteorologically.
5degrees today felt like the north Pole 😆 🤣 😂
The met office app was telling me it’s been 4 degrees here today. It bloody hasn’t! That sounds positively tropical compared to what it’s felt like in all this ‘orrible fog
We’ve had cold fog literally all day. Hasn’t cleared even slightly - felt freezing although only 4 degrees
Reet. Get telt tha lotta yas. Real winter is when Geordies purra jumper on...
Edit: and I'm only pretending. In my defence I've been indoctrinated since the age of 2 & 3/4 so I reckon I qualify. 🤔🤣
It was a beautiful sunny day in Edinburgh.
Good point scotroutes. "scratches head"
It got real for a few people this morning on the road over the Hill south of Burnley. Was around freezing, frost on the grass and the council hadn't gritted. One car 30 yards into field, another reversing off the verge and numerous other scars on the grass banks as I crawled past very gingerly. The one in the field looked like it may have rolled. 4 youths probably on their way to college were stood next to it sheepishly so I'm guessing they all got out OK.
Today started gloriously sunny and frosty. I then saw the gloom seeping in from the south. It's grim out there. But only chilly, not cold.
It got real for a few people this morning on the road over the Hill south of Burnley.
Where abouts Jon? I'm up at Pike Hill. It's taters.
It wasn't that cold here I am still wearing summer spd shoes and survived a 30 mile road ride with slightly chilled toes. I am southern by birth but not by inclination.
astronomical minter starts Dec 22nd (ish)
Reminds me of this:
Rumour has it simonbarnes still sleeps with his window open in an icebath
simonfbarnes sleeps with the fishes, he passed away a couple of years ago
simondbarnes probably sleeps under a very thick duvet so he doesn't have to use the heating, but i make no guarantees
It's true!
It was a beautiful sunny day in Edinburgh.
It may have been, but there was ice on the ground on my way to work and it was beginning to ice up again at 4pm. And that was down in Leith. Still people swimming in the sea, in their bathing suits as the Sun came up though 😳🥶🥶
BTW binners " as northern as can be"? Hmmmm - hundred odd miles of England to the north of you let alone scotland. many of us would see you lot as southerners
You never know
She may have moved down south from wick or Thurso teej
BTW binners ” as northern as can be”?
It's a rebellious state of mind, not just a geographical thing
Beautiful sunny day in Sheffield, until about 10am when the freezing fog rolled in... So I'm claiming that as the official start of winter for me
She may have moved down south from wick or Thurso teej
In which case it'd be the height of summer... #justsaying
Darn serf (of Watford) it hit winter as soon as it went below 15.
BTW binners ” as northern as can be”?
Well you’ve met her. Wigans finest export. I dare you to call her a southerner to her face 😂
I’ve been wearing both the big coat and the thick sleeveless thing over the top… indoors. Would take it all off to go the pub because… a packed pub is always warm… and beer blankets install themselves very quickly in there.
I'm still walking the dog, in a T shirt.
(whilst wearing a dry robe)
Still in shorts here, a balmy 6°c and foggy all day here
Aye, big coat indeed.
Sun's out, guns out for Mostafa.
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Hew man, the lasses doon the Bigg Market’ll be oot on Frida neet in the mini skorts & a skanty top. Nee botha.
Tits oot!
I’m still walking the dog, in a T shirt.
It's probly cruel making a dog wear a T shirt. What was on it so we can pass propa judgement?
Still shorts for dog walking at half six this morning (south Yorkshire)
While I might wear something warmish on top, I’m still wearing shorts, mainly because I work indoors now, and it’s more comfortable wearing shorts because I’m using one of those little adjustable stools on castors that beauticians and tattooists use when I’m working along the sides of cars, and standing for other things, not having trousers binding around my knees is just nicer. For those occasions when I go outside, I just don’t notice a bit of chill.
I’ll see how long I can manage when I’m not at work… 😎
I have deployed the 10 tog duvet
I've travelled south to "the north" and its cold.
Still not winter though
It's not officially cold in our house until the tog 4.5 quilt is fastened to the tog 9 quilt to make "super quilt"
Haven't even had to scrape the car's windows once yet so definitely not anywhere near winter here. My Facebook keeps on reminding me of my rides in Sub-Zero temps this time over multiple years (one was at Brechfa and it never got above -5 in bright sunshine!) so it's definitely unseasonably warm. Only switched the heating on last week as it was taking my washing too long to dry naturally!
It’s not officially cold in our house until the tog 4.5 quilt is fastened to the tog 9 quilt to make “super quilt”
Don't think we've ever done that, we just one as 'summer duvet' and the thicker one as 'winter duvet'.
We rarely do it. You can almost guarantee that as soon as you clip them together and shoehorn them back in the quilt cover it'll warm up.
The bad winters of 2009-2011 it got used a lot
❄️💨⛄
I had one of those "this time last year" reminders on Google Photos the other day of heavy snow in the Peak District in late November.
So this is positively mild by comparison.
Most people live in towns and cities in the UK. If you live in a rural or an elevated location it is usually much colder in winter
Guy Harvey eloquently stated this in "Courting the Squall" song...
"In the hills it's an overcoat colder"
