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Re: But its a dry cold over in Canada.....

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9078172)

What's recent?

I originally had relatively recent. I seem to have changed it.:o

Recent...relatively recent...as in 30 or 40 years of living in a country where a week at zero gets pensioners Exceptionally Severe Weather Payments and then in the first Canadian winter strolling to the shops or cycling there at -20:blink:

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9078172)

How about "you get used to the cold and dress appropriately so it's not that much of a bother" (within reason)?

I agree with that too...but I have a jacket that I'm comfortable wearing here at a far colder temperature than I'd have worn it in Bristol. And in my first winter here too.

Maybe I'm just weird. Yet others here suggest something similar.

Re: But its a dry cold over in Canada.....

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9078196)

I originally had relatively recent. I seem to have changed it.:o

I agree with that too...but I have a jacket that I'm comfortable wearing here at a far colder temperature than I'd have worn it in Bristol. And in my first winter here too.

Maybe I'm just weird. Yet others here suggest something similar.

I remember an incident more than 34 years ago when I was a postdoc in Cambridge and we had a sabbatical visitor from Canada (Deep River, the AEC research place).

My OH had bought me a winter coat for Christmas and when the guy saw it he asked where she'd found it, because it'd be perfect for springtime at home.