I've been seeing a lot of 'What's Hot, What's Not' around in the blogosphere lately so thought I'd give it a go today.
What's Hot -
Finding my extremely ancient jumper still fits, and is wonderfully warm and snuggly. I've had the jumper for 15 years plus and my Mum knitted it for my sister before that, so goodness knows how old it is. I've no idea what the yarn is either - could be wool, could be manmade, could be a wool / manmade mix. It's no great thing of beauty and I wouldn't wear it outside the house (especially as it has gone into hole under the arms!!) but I sure am enjoying it's all-enveloping warmth at the moment.
Likewise, digging out a hat my Mum knitted for herself, didn't like, partially unpicked, gave to me to reuse the wool, and then finding that I have just enough yarn to sew up the unpicked bits and that the hat fits great, is fantastically warm, and has ear flaps. I know what I'll be wearing next time I venture out.
The snow. Here in Essex we've had a lot less than other places, although it is really coming down strongly now. I don't really like bitterly cold weather but there is always something quite exciting about snow - I think it's the way the light is so different to normal - sort of ethereal and glowing.
Knowing I've got enough food in the house to last us for a week. If this weather keeps up - and the forecasters can see no end in sight - at least we're good for the next seven days. After that we probably wouldn't starve but there may be some very odd combinations of food occuring.
What's Not -
Weather forecasters and news presenters talking about the depth of snow in centimetres. Why do they do that? As far as I know the EU decided that the UK could keep it's imperial measurements - thank goodness we still travel in miles and not kilometres and in the greengrocers and the butchers you can still ask for a pound of this or half a pound of that (just as well as I'd have no idea what 250g or 500g really looked like!), so why do the BBC have to keep wittering on about 30cm of lying snow and a further 10cm expected etc etc. I have to keep trying to work it out to know what on earth they're talking about. There was a classic case of metric / imperial confusion on Breakfast News this morning when the presenter confidently predicted 15 inches of snow were due and the weather girl had to reassure viewers it would be 15cm instead. That would be quite some difference in snowfall.
My poor Mum who is stuck with only one pint of fresh milk in the house as the milkman was unable to make his delivery this morning and she is unable to get out. Luckily, she has quite a lot of milk powder in the house but that stuff is really no substitute for fresh milk. She's keeping everything crossed that Sainsbury's will be delivering her internet order tomorrow but it's not looking too promising at the moment.
The snow. It's really chucking it down here now and I'm a bit worried about how P will fare getting home from work this evening.
Predicted minus 8 overnight temperatures - brrr!!!
When I was growing up in Essex we always seemed to get loads of snow so you have been lucky this year. I know just what you mean by old favourites keeping you warm. Don't go out unless you have to.
Posted by: Lindsey | 01/06/2010 at 06:57 PM