Living here in a Canadian winter means that I've been a bit housebound, so my exposure to Canadian culture has been in short bursts or through the television. I have to say though that winter itself is a different thing here. Snow, ice, weird fogs... this place has it all. One of the funniest things I saw when driving around the town was the girls who refused to give up to the notion that it was snowing, and still were wearing their barely-covers-the-arse skirts and heels. With bare legs. In the snow! Me sitting in my SUV with the heater blasting, wrapped in my coat, jacket, long trousers and sheepskin lined boots, couldn't help but shiver as I saw these fashionably determined girlies.
I will get my revenge when the weather gets back into the positives, and when they're all gasping at how hot it is, I'll be wandering around grinning. Maybe I'll even wear a woollen jumper just to rub it in a bit. I'll then pass out from heat stroke, but I'll be giggling all the way down.
Exactly how is your winter going? I ask because Connecticut is currently in the midst of the harshest winter we've had in years.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't really seem that bad to me, because I have no baseline to compare it to. However from some of the comments I've been hearing around me, it's fairly bad. Husband keeps making reference to the temperatures approaching the cold he used to experience when he was at university much further north.
ReplyDeleteSounds about right. If it's anything like ours in terms of how bad it is relative to the average, it's certainly quite the introduction to North American winters.
ReplyDeleteI just blame the Husband for dragging me into this. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLove your latest blog Annette. Love your down to earth style. John (big bro).
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