Winter

[Rickfitz]

We won't ask what you were doing then


Me bruvver lives down your way, Stratford sub Castle, and he always says it's freezing up here in the Midlands. He'd get frostbite up north

Just a little walk about

[nealh]

I bought a 12 volt electric blanket. removed the wiring and put it in my coveralls. Works great. beats the devil out of being cold.

[daddyo]

Had my thermal top on yesterday

Working on roofs in all weathers, for over 40 years has taken it's toll. I do find that I feel the cold more nowadays.

Don't believe all of the "you'll be used to the cold then" bollocks

George

yup, same here George , 40 years on the trowel has it's side effects. I do laugh when people say " you'll be used to it by now", yeah sure,
like you get used to -2. . Thermals are on now till next spring.

atb john

yep same here. 25yrs bricklaying. in the summer all i get is "your so lucky to be working outside"
they don't say that come winter time!!!

[snoopy]

cant beet seeing black starting on yu toses, just after melting a nylon sock to your foot over the kettle ring lol.. and yeh nylon of all things.

m y favourate yarn is..

jeeeezus, woke up and its feckin fleezin, dither down the hall way cloaths in hand, pick up the old pit boots and plonk the them with the cloaths on top of the land lords 'oh thats an adequate gas fire' gaurd, switch on the fire and watch the frost defrost in a neet little D shape, dithering as you wait for the cloaths to thaw and them damn steel toe caps to come out of deep freeze!

then the 5 mile hi speed yomp into work and no heating and paint away.. the odd wall actualy froz up like a window with the frosty snow flake pattern, but hey ho gaffer says crack on or fooook off lolol!!!

arriving home to the toasty adequate fire was a thrill n half, the exightment of jeeeesus its cold! haha..ohhh god taint fun is it.


appently hypothermia is your friend, alone and a few K from home, and its taken an hour to get a few hundred yards, but hey its nice...well at that point its very pleasen indeed, but only in comparison to before the pain stops and when you cant actualy move any more.. oh and the warm up? ermmm tis better to be unconcous for that although ermmm, that could kill you too!

then..
''jeeeezus, woke up and its feckin fleezin, dither down the hall way cloaths in hand, pick up the old pit boots and plonk the them with the cloaths on top of the land lords 'oh thats an adequate gas fire' gaurd, switch on the fire and watch the frost defrost in a neet little D shape, dithering as you wait for the cloaths to thaw and them damn steel toe caps to come out of deep freeze!''

on the news margret's chudderign on about 'you've never had it so good', god that woman drudged up some gall!! cant beet a polotision for warming the cockles of yu heart now.

things dont change much do they.

then they invented the handwarmer...lol i couldnt help thinking about an enanoma hand warmer for margret tbh

edit.........., then a 2 day job where the old biddy croaked in the cold, and we moved two doors down to job 2...biddy croaked in the cold, then a five doors down to job 3....where the biddy died, then yup not 1, not 2, not even three but FOUR biddies died in a 1 week cold spell in the same street..some weeks later the cold weather payments arrived.

i couldnt help thinking about an enenama hand warmer for thatcher!