soapy©

when the newbies are greetin aboot the cold

worzel

That is it officially. I am an Aussie! I went to Yanchep National Park yesterday. The pommie tourists were in t-shirts and shorts and I had a hat and coat on - cold at 20C.

Ransi

....you eat indoors.

jad n rich

The snow resorts are claiming fabulous snowfalls - 25cm

Mrs Jackaroo

You start knitting your own scarf because you cant find one in the shops that you like!! (although being a novice at knitting I'm not sure I'll like the one I knit either!!)

iPom

Come up here, chick. I can show you whole shops dedicated to fun knitwear...

Geordie George

I started knitting Mr GG a scarf in about late November last year. I have high hopes of finishing it before the end of 2007. Hope yours is quicker than mine.

St.Georges Girl

I just don't get this weather thing. Is that really all people migrate for? I know I've opened a hornets nest, but truly, I just don't understand it!

moneypenny20

Yes, partly but mainly because we wanted to. I hate cold, it makes me ill. Not the cold cold crisp winter that doesn't exist in Southern England anymore, the dank, grey, bone numbing depressing chill that you have for about 4 months. I hated it with a passion and hope I never have to suffer it again.

My MIL rang the other night and asked if we were still using the pool - I didn't swear, I promise but I did call her a fool

Hutch

Honestly?

In my case - I'd say it did play a big part in it. Those low cloud base days in the UK, the grey, the kind of drizzle for which there's no suitable setting on the car's windscreen wipers, wet rotting leaves on the pavement, too damp for a fleece and too warm for a thick coat, subsisting, not freezing, not boiling... endless months of them. 40 years of that in the UK, I think I've earned some blue skies and sunshine. I used to spend nine months of the year in the UK yearning for summer... and the three months of summer in a constant state of depression knowing how short lived it was. I know some people move here and yearn for that British greyness - but me ....




I'm over it.

BadgeIsBack

I didn't even notice, relatively, how mundane weather was in the UK until I went to Australia. I didn't spend all my time in the UK saving my pennies for a week or 2 in Malaga hanging on to life by a string with anticipation.

I feel sorry for people who lived like this. Must be hell!

However, now I am here, weather is a pleasant factor and it is a criterion which would go against the UK if such things were being weighed up, blow by blow.

cheers

BadgeIsBack

Very Bill Bryson.

Britain's problem for some is that its too actually bloody temperate. And the effing Maritime climate.

Give me central west Europe, say Germany, Luxembourg, France, or New York State or Boston. Real snow. (blue skies) Real cold temps. Real hot summers.

Wendy

Can tell you come from the south

In the North it seems dull and grey forever. The very few times you get sunshine it is beautiful, but then it goes back to being dark, grey and FREEZING. I can't remember anytime apart from when the sun was shining, that I could go out without a warm coat on.

It's not the main reason I came, but it does help I really hate snow too, so having to never see that again is a real plus for me.

BadgeIsBack

My old dear often tells me how different and real the weather is where she is in Wales - on an island somewhere.

The weather varies more than people realise.

Kapri

I live on the south coast and the weather is infinitely better than further uo the country ( unless it's just that global warming has really kicked in this last couple of years).
However, living on the south coast comes at a price.
I can stay in my average sized U.K house with a postage stamp garden if I'm willing to continue working full time in a stressful management job. Alternatively I can give up my management job and live in a tiny terrace with no parking.
Or I can choose to live further north and suffer colder and greyer weather.
I have decided instead to move to Australia where I eventually hope to work 4 days per week in a normal nursing position, live in an average sized house (which will be bigger than my UK one) and have long warm summers and relatively short mild winters.