A Long Cold Winter...

[poliphilo]

There was a report in the paper a few days back that the arctic swans have flown in from Siberia and this means it's going to be an extra long winter.

Bloody swans!

I don't know exactly what the temperature is today but I'm wearing fingerless gloves and thinking I may need to add a body warmer to the ensemble.

Tell you what would be nice: a roaring fire of applewood- like they have in this book I'm reading- the first of the Merrily Watkins series. And how about something hot to drink- not tea or coffee but something in a bowl with a roasted crab(apple) floating in it?

If it weren't only October I'd be thinking of putting the seasonal protections up- by which I mean the Christmas decorations. 

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I also read a report about early onset of Siberian winter presaging another cold one in the U.S. However, down around paragraph 7 it noted that although it is indeed earlier than usual, it's not as early as the last couple of winters. So....cold but maybe not so very cold. In any event, we plan to lay in plenty of sidewalk de-icer.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

British winters have been growing milder. A really fierce one might not hurt us.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Our last two have been harsher than we've had for a long time, with the cold setting in a few weeks earlier and lasting longer.