Its cold and raining...

[Poxican]

...and I couldnt be happier.

Im really looking forward to winter. I love getting my layers and a big coat and hat on. I love sitting inside with a coffee watching and listening to the rain, or drinking ale in a pub while the wind whips the rain horizontally outside.

Dont get me wrong, sitting in a park with a few tins or spending a day at the seaside in summer is grand, but theres something romantic about 'miserable' weather that i like.

Surely im not the only one?

[wilber]

Originally Posted by Poxican

...and I couldnt be happier.

Im really looking forward to winter. I love getting my layers and a big coat and hat on. I love sitting inside with a coffee watching and listening to the rain, or drinking ale in a pub while the wind whips the rain horizontally outside.

Dont get me wrong, sitting in a park with a few tins or spending a day at the seaside in summer is grand, but theres something romantic about 'miserable' weather that i like.

Surely im not the only one?

no you aren't especially when it's a saturday afternoon listening to the football on radio 5...
The only weather I really dislike are grey days.. you knnow the ones that are the meterological equivalent of swede.. all bland and boring with nothing happening

[Clecko]

I'm with you, dude. I love getting warm on a cold evening, feeling the warmth from my local's open fire while the wind howls all around, cuddling up in bed with the missus in deepest winter...

I hate trying to cool down on hot nights, travelling around London in 30+ degree heat and the like. Though I did have a great beer garden day on Saturday in sunny Suffolk.

[Col.Decker]

Yep we've had the chimney swept, coal man's been, plenty of chopped logs in the shed.

nice thick soup in front of the fire. Great







bring it on

[roundthebend]

Originally Posted by Clecko

I'm with you, dude. I love getting warm on a cold evening, feeling the warmth from my local's open fire while the wind howls all around

Clecko, your local is a run down flea-pit of a place with no open fire unless you're counting the burning car in the car park? As for the howling, that'll be the female regulars.

It used to be most frequented by members of the homsexual community.



Crikey, my local has more of a traditional vibe to it and I live in Bretton!

[Clecko]

Originally Posted by roundthebend

Clecko, your local is a run down flea-pit of a place with no open fire unless you're counting the burning car in the car park? As for the howling, that'll be the female regulars.

Actually, I'd forgotten about the Cross Keys. On the odd occasion when I and a few mates can escape employee/husband/daddy simultaneously, we tend to walk to The Botolph Arms. However, I much prefer to get someone to drive as my favourite localish places are The Black Horse in Elton and The Cuckoo in Alwalton.

As for the Cross Keys being a gay pub, it was much better then. I went in when it was a mate's birthday and he had a bit of a party there. Nice atmosphere and a good night. Full of halfwits now.

[tehLORD]

I like to see summer and feel winter.

[BlindLemonAde]

Pah.

Summer? What summer?

...now six months of cold and dreary weather. Roll on global warming!

[scrumhalf]

Roll on autumn, a beautiful time of the year.

I don't mind winter at all but I seem to have lost my youthful imperviousness to cold and with gas prices the way they are* it's lost its allure.



* Inflation is -1.6%. How? Other than my mortgage everything's more expensive, and not just pennies either. Things at Tesco are going up by 10-20% every few weeks, it can't all be due to exchange rates.

[bird.land]

We've collected the kindling from the forest and are in the process of freezing the produce. It'll be good. I love an open fire.

Tip for tomato growers: Cut them, place in a large dish with good olive oil and put them in an oven at gasmark 7 for a couple of hours and when cool, freeze them. Delicious.

If you make your own Pesto, freeze it in an icecube thing and when cool dollop the stuff in - once frozen put the cubes in a freezer bag, it is ideal to mix with the tomatos in winter, great for pasta, giving a taste of Spring. Erm, am I offtopic here? Ciao