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Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Lab_adore said:
Actually it does Emily, or at least makes me grateful I'm not over there as I hate the cold !!
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I gotta say, after sweltering in the endless summer that was my four months in California this year - still 25C plus in freaking October - I was thrilled to put on my big comfy coat and boots this year. But yeah, talk to me in about two months and I'll be singing another tune! 😂
 
Lab_adore

Lab_adore

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Staff member
Location
Sydney, Australia
Lab_adore said:
It all came back to bite me. Yesterday, 31 and hot and humid. Today, 23 and a southerly wind making it feel like 15 :cold:
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Mind you, the much cooler weather brought Maxx out of his stupor. He has been thundering around the house and garden with various toys, throwing balls at us and just now stole a plastic bottle from the recycling bucket and running around the house making a heck of a noise! Too cute
 
Candy

Candy

Biscuit Tin Guardian
Location
West Yorkshire, UK
We woke up to find it had snowed some more overnight, but what a beautiful sunny clear day it's been! There were various jobs I'd meant to do today but they have all had to wait because we so rarely get days like this here in winter, so Joy and I just had to be out and about! We walked for about three hours, the longest I've done for ages, and when we reached the field and river at Brearley, which was as far as I'd planned to go, there was her friend Alfie! His hooman said 'Well, fancy seeing you two here!' and they had a great play together, charging around in the snow, both SO happy, then we all headed back along the towpath in the direction of our homes. Alfie's dad, like me had decided that it was too beautiful a day to stay indoors and as he said, 'What's the point of retirement if you can't take advantage of the good weather?'
Sky looking perhaps a bit ominous thisevening though!20230120_170016.jpg
 
Candy

Candy

Biscuit Tin Guardian
Location
West Yorkshire, UK
I was right about that sky looking ominous, here is the same view today!20230121_131328.jpgI'm so glad we had our long walk yesterday and saved the things that needed doing ( mostly stacking the logs from the recent delivery, which should be the last one until Autumn). Today we had a shorter walk, then came back and Joy played with Loki while I stacked the logs. It's so cold that my feet were numb by the time I'd finished despite two thick pairs of socks and my walking boots. I was reminded of a poem that I always thinks depicts cold so well, 'St. Agnes' Eve', by John Keats. Thawing out over a cup of coffee I checked to see when St. Agnes ' Eve actually is and it was yesterday! The poem was written in the 1890s, so it seems that yesterday and today at least have not been so different from then, weather-wise. Here are the first four lines, enough to make you feel cold just reading them!
'St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass
And silent was the flock in woolly fold.'

And here, just to reassure you that we haven't actually frozen is The Labrador, limping trembling through the frozen grass!:giggl:20230121_102633.jpg
 
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