Well we were having an unseasonably nice winter and I for one was grateful for that (being a delicate Irish flower and all..) but let me tell you boys and girls things have taken a downward spiral in the last 24 hours or so. Behold the forecast (Brass monkeys are heading for the airport at a serious rate of knots!)
Well, I don’t suppose anyone forced you to live there I’d rather live in a tent in the desert than in a mansion anywhere cold like that.
Unemployment brought me over here to be honest, and the country has looked after me (touch wood) but there is a price to pay and that's it pictured above. To be fair, a cold spell of that nature is generally short (3-7 days) but you're still talking -10 to -20C this time of year and believe it or not that's fine. But when sh!t starts falling below -20 and into the -30's well that just sucks.
That is some swing in temperatures. I can only compare it to us having 0 degrees and then 30 degree balmy summer for a few days and back to 0 again. Does the cold "feel" different over there? Something about it being less humid or something. Still -29degrees regardless must mean not a lot can be achieved away from a heat source - walking, running, tinkering on cars.
Once you’re wrapped up properly you can head out in it to walk the dog but I wouldn’t recommend running as inhaling a lot of cold air into the lungs at those temps can mess you up - ask me how I know. Car tinkering is a no-no unless you have a very well insulated and heated garage - I don’t. Car work wouldn’t generally start until about April and would continue until September/October.
It's pretty hard to repair a car in a cold garage. Personally, my hands usually freeze. But if you need to do something urgently, there is no other way, is there not?
