Don’t worry. No need for the panic room. It’s the other baking…..
Sometimes it’s hard to drag the body out of the warm bed and into the baking hot Yorkshire winter weather. I know what’s likely to greet me when I do finally get to the back room and my exercise bike.
It’s potentially colder in this room than it is outside. And it’s certainly cold outside.
That’s ice…..
I remember the days of jumping on the bike in pretty short shorts and a thin running top. At present it’s 97 layers, gloves and two wooly hats. I’ve got that many layers in that I have to peddle for at least a minute before my very outside legging layer starts to move.
Today the water and energy drinks have been replaced with hot chocolate and a hot water bottle.
So I was on my exercise bike and feeling like I was in an icy snow hole. What I couldn’t make me mind up about was….
Was the iced up windows annoyingly blocking the view of the outside world
OR
Was the iced up window forming a useful barrier, blocking out the reality of the outside world.
In the end I decided it was a bit of both.
As one who turns the thermostat down as much as one can without threatening pipe freeze, the ice on your windows looks all too familiar. Biff is very much like me, wearing plenty of layers, socks, and slippers, where Blondie and Bo seem perfectly connect in short sleeves no matter what the weather. They make me cold just by looking at them!
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Iβm like you, Hawklad like Blondie.
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Where’s the smiley face drawn in the window? It needs a smiley face!ππππ
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I think my finger would have frozen to the window… xxx
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Oh yes. I was thinking that too. π
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It looks refreshingly coldπ₯Ά
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Definitely
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That is really cold!!ββ
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Chilly
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That’s the answer to most things
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It is.
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Yes, it’s unpleasantly cold here too, and icy. We’ve just been out on our bikes in the freezing fog. We must be mad…
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Thatβs brave. Bet that was bracing.
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Just a tad…
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Interesting options of what the iced window could mean. I like the thought of being both. We are having about -5 CΒ° during the night, but our windows are not iced. I can only imagine how cold it is in Yorkshire. Take care… and bake the cake you were talking about, of course, while enjoying some hot chocolate π
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I will. It was -8 last night. Bit crunchy….π
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Brrrrrr…..π₯Ά
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It was x
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I bet!
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Currently we are above 0 degrees Celsius. Even had a day this week when it was 10C. Stifling hot. π I dressed too warm. Bundle up Superdad. And you thought Canada was cold…. we’re like the tropics on the Westcoast compared to Yorkshire.
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Sounds like you are in the tropics. Does sound such a good place to visit. π
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Declan was waiting outside for me yesterday morning to go for a morning walk. I guess I took too long because when I got outside he drew so many pictures on the cars and their windows in the ice that was on them. Made for an interesting drive a little later!
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Bet D enjoyed that.
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I like your interesting thought about the ice window and I can’t make my mind up on it either. Certainly both that I can only come to the conclusion of.
Enjoy your day and your baking. I am thinking now should I bake today. You have sparked the idea now.
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Baking sounds a good idea.
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Didn’t end up doing today, as stuck with my colouring and reading. But I will be baking in the morning.
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Hope so.
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Hot chocolate sounds good! I think I will treat myself to that today as well. The ice on your windows is art, beautiful.
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I hope you do.
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I think you’re right. See, there is a bit of good in all things…so “they” say.
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Hope so
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Burr!! Did you eventually warm up. I hate being cold. I think it was the iced up window blocking the outside world out so for a moment you could feel some peace. β€οΈ
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I love the cold, it must be my Nordic genetics and I hate the heat of summer, I get less done when it is hot and feel so tired.
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I don’t mind cold but that cold its hard for me to warm up. So I will agree with you about summer. π
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When in Orkney I wore pjs under my jeans, for there it isn’t so much the cold, but the wind pushing it through the denim.
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Oh, I have done that. It’s so cozy, lol. Yes, the wind is a bit too much at times worst than the cold temps
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Yes the wind here is a problem
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Not fun…
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I must try that.
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Babasp, you’ll then be ready for anything.
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One day.
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Spring will be nice.
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Yes, it will. π
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Iβm a cold person as well.
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Ugh I hate when my car looks like this. Sounds like you’re looking at winter with a more positive view.
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Best way to get through it.
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When we arrived at the timeshare they had the thermostat at 72 degrees. Hubby put it up to 80 and is freezing, while I am really hot. I will post photos tomorrow of just me and the birds on the beach. π₯Ά
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Itβs warming up here. 1C this week.
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It is very chilly π₯Ά… California hasnβt been bad with the bone chill this year… so far so good but will still ice up my car windows in mornings making me either sit there or warm up 15 prior
The ice tries to make me late for work. lol βοΈ
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It has that effect doesnβt it.
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I wonder why that is, sometimes the house is warmer than outside and sometimes it colder than outside. Did I write that right? I don’t think I did? I’m sure if I was smarter I’d know why, lol. I would have said, I think we’re having one of our coolest Summers at the moment, but the last two days, have been really warm, lol.
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We get a few days of a heat wave apparently. Up to 2C during the day. x
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You remind me of a student flat I had with iced up windows and me typing with my feet on a hot water bottle, hands moving in turns to the coffee mug.
For me the ice blocked vision of what turned out to be the stirrings of daffodils and early tulips I had planted in late autumn. There’s so many kinds of realities.
β π»π»βπ
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Yes I had a student flat like that as well.
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Do you have good memories of it overall? I certainly do.
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Yes I do.
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Good
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Lordy … that looks frrrrrreeeeezzzzing brrrrrrrr π₯Ά
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Itβs a tad bracing.
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I LONG for Spring. I am ordering bulbs.
How’s THAT for faith??
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Itβs good.
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