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[lavendersparkle]

It's been a beautiful day today but rather cold. It reminds me of the part in Orlando:

The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs as the icy blast struck her at the street corner.

I felt a little like my head might be frozen to dust as I cycled to lectures this morning. It has become so cold that I wore long johns under my skirt and have turned the radiators in my room on. I feel rather sorry for poor people like feanelwa and the_alchemist who have even stronger sensations of body parts freezing off in this kind of weather. I am now happily in my room drinking a big mug of darjeeling.

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[emperor]

Hm, yes, here in Cov it was below zero when I cycled to work for the first time today. Chilly!

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I am at the moment housebound as the workers are in. I wanted to start so much and can't. It is cold in the house and it is even colder outside. I just had to go shopping and actually thought about going to the bank. But it was not urgent. It was too cold for me going any further than the small Tesco. I am a whimp in general. London has not snow normally. This winter is the same as normal.