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Winter
It's winter already. It's cold and dark and miserable and wet, and there was thunder and hail before. I hate winter and it goes on for months.
And it's at times like this that I go to reach for the digital camera I no longer have. Vic came inside with muddy paws and leapt onto Greg who pushed him off with an outraged yell. I went out to see what was going on, and there was Vic sitting on the mat looking guilty, with a very clear trail of perfect muddy paw prints leading across the floor to him. It would have been such a cute photo.
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far fewer muffintops and huge men in shorts to look at
autumn leaves
conkers
that lovely bite frosty air has of a morning
no wasps
hot puddings with custard
... I shall stop now; I'm making myself nostalgic!
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We don't really have autumn or spring as our natives are evergreen. Basically we just have summer and winter, both for longer than most people. :-( Winter's just grey and wet and soggy and dark, and everything's damp; we have to have a dehumidifier running at home (and I need one at work) and the lights on most days. I hate it. The one decent winter (with sun!) we had was a drought and we were bombarded with doom-laden messages about saving water. You can't win.
I need to buy a full-spectrum lamp somewhere. We get so little sun in winter, but do you think people acknowledge that and sell them here for SAD sufferers?
I just want to go to bed and sleep, and I should be catching up with my writing.
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You do get snow, though?
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Some cities further south get occasional snow, and it's so cold right now, I'm sure they will.
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It's bloody damp here too. The bread I had in the fridge to keep it fresh went mouldy. We get mildew round the windows, even with a dehumidifier running. Russian friends who have immigrated here say they haven't been so cold in their lives, without decent heating and insulation. One of them built a house to her own specs: double glazing, insulation, central heating, and she's happy now. I envy her so much.
Why don't we have double-glazing? Those people who do it should come out here to a virgin market.
The dampness is the real problem as it's not that cold in temperature. I used to live in Germany and I loved the winters there: icy, freezing, and so dry your clothes could keep you warm.
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Such a pain about the digital camera! Will you be able to get another small one on insurance - maybe one with zoom, and then still get yourself a bigger one after that, as you'd planned? It might at least mean that something good would come of the break-in.
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Occasionally, and they're lovely. Today actually looks quite promising, but it's so changeable here, I could go to the supermarket and find it pouring when I come out half an hour later, which happened two weeks ago. I was soaked to the skin just going across the car park to my car. Rain here, BTW, is not rain as you know it. It's scarily heavy. And the winter before last, it rained at least once every day for four months. The best days are the very rare ones, maybe a handful a year, when there's a frost and it's bright and clear. Damn, but I miss German weather.
Will you be able to get another small one on insurance
We will, and it will have to be a better model as our one's no longer made. If it's good enough, it might well do me. :-)
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I hope that the camera *will* work out, then.
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Exactly. This is why I get so depressed in winter. I need sunshine.
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Aww, such a cute story about Vic!
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Your parents will miss proper housing here. We don't have double glazing or decent insulation, and good heating is rare. I'm sitting by a fan heater. Today is sunny--at the moment-- but as I said to someone just above, that doesn't mean it won't be raining buckets in half an hour.
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And lightning scares me. My grandfather was rolled over by a ball of lightning on the golf course, and a ball passed through a house in the next suburb once. [shivers] I've felt thunder actually shake the house; luckily not this time.
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And sorry, my grandfather was fine! He was a young man at the time. When he saw the ball coming, he threw himself flat. It passed over him and he felt a huge tingling sensation, but the only damage was burns on his shirt where the metal clasps on his braces were. :-)
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A good thing I recently realised about winter, is that it's easier to cover up, and use fabulous clothes to do so. So there's at least one redeeming feature to it.
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Actually I did think up one thing I like about it: no flies. :-P