It’s so cold!

It has been cold, with torrential rain and the winds have been gale force in my part of Buckinghamshire. But none of it is unprecedented. D-Day was delayed because of dire weather conditions.

In 'A Midsummernight's Dream' Oberon speaks of the June weather thus:

"Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge have sucked up from the sea
Contagious fogs, which, falling in the land,
Hath every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain,
The plowman lost his sweat, and the green corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
The fold stands empty in the drownèd field,
And crows are fatted with the murrain flock.
The nine-men’s-morris is filled up with mud,
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green,
For lack of tread, are undistinguishable.
The human mortals want their winter here.
No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound.
And thorough this distemperature we see
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,"

T'was ever thus, We have weather, not a climate!

Yes for the last week I've put it on for a few hours now and again.

Hey! Its cold, it’s windy, but it’s not raining. Shall I get up and walk our dog now, before it starts?

Would you believe that Summer officially started on the first of June?
Been cold, wet and windy, all day here in the Great Northern City.

I switched the heating on for a couple of hours the evening. It will help dry the washing also.

I was meeting a friend for coffee but dressed for January and not June.

I have used a hwb for many nights now.

I have had the heating back on as the cold and damp had been miserable. I can’t ever remember such a cold and wet June. Sad - we only have three summer months and the first is diabolical. September here in South Wales was cold and wet last year the minute the kids went back to school. Not helped by caring for a terminally ill husband. We both need some sunshine to remind us that times can be good.

Greenfinch I'm in Berkshire, but haven't had the heating on. I do put it on in the bathroom for half an hour before I shower, because I hate having a cold bathroom when I get out of the shower, and then I turn it off. Helps me to dry the towels afterwards on the radiator too.

The weather has made me resolve to always take a long sleeved thermal top with me whenever I go away. I was away from home on two occasions earlier in the year and regretted not having a thermal top with me. This time we have been in Northern Ireland for 2 weeks, it has rained constantly, I’ve worn my thermal top every day and had the heating and electric blanket on. So depressing!

Better today with sunshine.
However yesterday I was freezing for an hour while waiting for a return bus as the bus dropped me off ten minutes late not giving me time to get strawberries at a fruit farm before catching the return bus.
I stood by the entrance in hope that someone would offer me a lift but the only old chap who offered was going the opposite direction.

The sun is back on...yay!!

When I arrived home Wednesday my DH had turned the heating up to 23°because he was so cold. Was lovely to come home to a warm house.

Heating still being put on for an hour most mornings and maybe 2 in the evening. DH lit the log burner yesterday afternoon - it was lovely and cosy. Thoroughly sick of this miserable weather in N Yorkshire

It’s a lot warmer here (outer SW vLondon) today, but I’m still grateful for all that rain - it was so sorely needed here.

If the sun doesnt come out then it is really cold here. Huge lounge windows let the cold in even through double glazing so have had heating on first thing in the morning & last thing at night for a couple of days.

North Surrey

Phew its hot out there. Have been weedng and come in for a cold drink

It snowed on the coronation day of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Coronation date was June 2nd.

Dh remembers it in north Bucks, where hel ived. I was in Hong Kong so my memory of coronationd ay was rather different.

We gave in and put ours on last night. Nearly back to a hot water bottle on the sofa in the afternoon!

It is cold here too, but June is often cold and damp.

In one of my favourite childhood books, The Railway Children, it is so cold in June, this is in Edwardian England, that the children ask if they may light the fire and their mother says no, as she cannot afford fires in June.

There is nothing new under the sun, is there?

Unfortunately, I removed my electric blanket some time ago.
Wish I hadn’t now.

I can’t be bothered to get it out again but have resorted to changing my summer sheet to a fleecy one.

Also very cold last night and couldn’t sleep.

And it’s the longest day on the 21st!

I haven't put it on but hubby has just come home from our caravan and I think it will be on before the end of the day.

UI read online we no longer need to wash duvets and other bulky items. Hanging them outdoors in sunshine (remember that yellow thing in the sky?) for a few hours, and it will apparently get rid of dust mites and freshen it up. I must do that with pillows.

I have returned, having met a friend for coffee, did a small shop and was dressed for January and I needed it.

Heating on? Absolutely not! We have oil heating and the price is silly for oil atm..... however, the log burner was lit last night, and I was sat under a blanket!
It's my birthday next week and I have never known my birthday to be cold. I had hoped my husband and I would take a picnic to a local canalside that we love, but I can't see that happening

Same here in Scotland! I'm freezing, winter clothes on raining and windy outside. Wee halogen heater is on as I cannot get a heat in me! Got to take dog out soon...Winter coat going back on! Sick of seeing other countries at 27 28 31 and it's 10° here! Miserable