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Could I move to Scotland?!
Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 17:14:19 +0000 (UTC), Cheryl Perkins yodeled: Kreisleriana wrote: Well, I swear, I was there twice and felt cold all the time. Maybe the temperature seems moderate, but it feels cold. I'm not from a tropical climate. It is also dark and damp many days out of the year, which makes it seem colder-- not a lot of sunshine, overall. Finally, until fairly recently, people in the British Isles simply did not have the same notions about heating their dwellings as Americans do, so it was cold indoors, too. Not, of course, if you wore a sweater (or two), but who wants to wear a sweater all the time? Oh, I believe you. And you'd probably find it cold in Newfoundland, too. I think the fact that when I read your last sentence, I wondered what was wrong with wearing a sweater all the time? Or, at the very least, rarely leaving home without a sweater or sweatshirt in the backpack. I think that shows that different people experience the same climate differently. Well, I know a lot of people say "There is no bad weather, only bad clothing." But I just hate the feeling of wearing heavy clothing, layers, being bundled up. I hate it. Summer, no matter how nasty-hot it gets, is always better than winter for me. It may be as uncomfortably hot as winter is uncomfortably cold, but the difference for me is that in the summer, I can be in a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops. I'd rather die of heat dressed like that than freeze (or sweat to death) swaddled in layers. The best day of the year for me is the first one I leave off my socks. The saddest one is when I put socks and closed shoes back on. I used to think that, when we lived in Canada. Oh how I yearned for summer each year! I also hated being bundled up, shoes, socks all that stuff. Then we moved to Thailand. O. M. G. I will never yearn for heat again. Ever. It is *way* worse to be wearing as little as humanly decent and still be sweating buckets. It is incredibly draining to be hot all the time. It's depressing to start to fear the sun, to feel locked into your airconditioned house because it's too damn hot outside. To have a lovely yard that you never step foot in because it's too hot. After 5 years of that, all I can say is hallelujah, it's over! Even though moving to Australia at the start of winter is probably making the transition a bit harder than it would have been. And I'm freezing cold in the evenings and mornings and drink copious quantities of hot tea and have a chair in front of my heater. And I'm bundled up even indoors (I even bought some of those Aussie sheepskin booties!). But you know what? I've finally got *energy*. I'm not sluggish anymore, I can get out of my chair without groaning! I've been zooming around all day long since I've been here and not stopping till bedtime and it's *wonderful* :-) Mind you, I still think it will be nice when spring comes. I've yet to experience a summer here, but from what I hear it's a lot cooler down here than in Perth. At least it wouldn't be nearly as humid as in Thailand and you'd know there was an end in sight! My favourite temps are low to mid 20's. I also have SAD, seasonal affective disorder, and get depressed promptly as we turn the clock back in the fall. I hate darkness and short days. Dennis has that, badly. It was the worst in the winter we lived in Yellowknife. Only 3-4 hours of daylight just about killed him. Vancouver was bad for him too, too many overcast and rainy days. He was fine growing up in Calgary. Even though it gets much colder there, it's much sunnier. He never had a problem with it in Thailand either, obviously. I think he'll be all right here, it's much sunnier than western Canada. -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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