Re: It's snowing

Paul Dormer <prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wore my hiking boots just to go round the corner to Tesco to see
if they had any papers this morning. And the feeling of nostalgia
for the winters of my youth stopped me from realising how cold
it was.

I remember from early childhood some truly phenomenal snows. Snow
over my head -- though admittedly I was somewhat shorter then. What
I *don't* remember is it being especially cold. These days, if it's
below freezing, unless it's sunny with no wind and I'm doing something
strenuous, I'm soon cold to the core, with the sort of cold that feels
like neither I nor the world will ever be warm again. It feels more
like something belonging to mythology than to science. Fimbulwinter.
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