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Winter is coming
Topic Started: May 5 2013, 05:19 AM (115 Views)
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Wooaaaaaaaaah Jesus Christ.

Today is the first day that it really feels like winter is coming. There's a chill in the air that I haven't felt for months and months.

I'm curled up on the couch with big woollen socks on but my toes are still chilled, when I touch them they're cold. I have really bad circulation in my feet and its really hard to warm them up, even with a hot water bottle. The blood just doesn't pump very strongly down there.

It's been pouring with rain the last couple of days and nights. The sky is always grey. Winter is coming.

Every time you eat bread Ryan Gosling is sad.
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I'm going to make a hot chocolate and a hot water bottle and curl up on the couch with Roxy and a blanket and watch svu on my iPad.
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It's starting to get warmer here. I'm going to the beach today for a walk. Woop woop.

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I don't mind the cold so much, but I really hate the near constant darkness, and I don't get up until it is broad daylight. What 172 must endure getting up each day in the pitch dark and driving to work in the pitch dark and arriving at work in the pitch dark?! Then he drives home in the pitch dark, arriving home in the pitch dark. Can you imagine doing all that AND having a job that you hate? A job where the pay is as low as the stress is high? I would rather be a tramp than live that lifestyle.
I remember at secondary school the week was very slow indeed. A five day week felt like a 30 day month. I was lucky I only lived about 7-8 minutes from the school. I was often home by 4.10pm. A worker today is up at 05:00am, away from home from 07:00am and not back until 7:00pm. I would be so stressed and exhausted that I wouldn't know my own name and you would have to hide everything sharp. When I go to bed around 05:00am it is amazing how many bedroom, kitchen and living room lights are on. People are up "and sad that day should come again" ready for yet another working day. I can see a road that people who live in a near by town use to come into my town and at 05:00am there is a steady stream of traffic. Where are these people going at that time? Work is the answer, they have long commutes.
When I take the dog out between 6:00pm and 6:30pm the traffic on the roads is heavy, people are still coming back from work and tempers are frayed, the air is rent with horns being tooted and woe-betide a driver at a roundabout that is a second too slow to pull away, the horns start beeping. People are so frayed that being made to wait even 1/4 of a second is almost intolerable for them.
Things never used to be like this. All this has really started in the the last 7-8 years and it has gotten really bad since about 2008. This stress and frenzied pace can't last forever, or mass suicides will occur.


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Not only are people stressed like never before. There is also a huge amount of anger about. Last night around 01:30am I heard from outside a series of tremendous crashes. These crashes came in two bursts. First a constant series of heavy bangs, then a short break then another 10-12 heavy crashes. Some drunken workers,stressed out of their minds, and very angry, were lifting two wheelie bins up in the air and banging them down again on the ground. My dog was woken up by the noise. Today I saw where this incident took place and it was about 150 yards from my house. The people living much closer must have all been woken up by this noise. The people making the noise didn't care if anyone came out to confront them. 172 workers are very, very stressed and extremely angry. All it needs is a 'let them eat cake' remark and God knows what will happen.

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May 5 2013, 08:55 AM
It's starting to get warmer here. I'm going to the beach today for a walk. Woop woop.
It is cold,gray and windswept here. Blu did you have a huge amount of rain on Friday? We had torrential rain all day, there was flooding all over.

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Wow no it was completely dry here on Friday. It hasn't rained the last couple of days I've been at home. It's been really quite warm. I didn't realise I'd missed warm weather but today was so nice. I helped my Mum with some planting in the garden this morning then sat on the deck with my doggy lying in the sun watching the birds. Then we went for a lovely walk on the beach. We walked for miles, along the dune trail, past the old shipwrecked boats and then along the beach front. It was really quiet and we stopped to take a rest and skimmed some stones and I had a little paddle.

It was pretty sweet. Now I'm revising. :-(

And drinking milkshake. :-)

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It's strange to think that it's sunny and warm over the other side of the world while it's gloomy and cold here.

What I dislike the most about the cold seasons is the wind. I hate wind. It poured down with rain this morning. It was like someone was pouring a bucket of water onto the windscreen, the wipers could barely keep up.

I quite like getting up and going somewhere in the dark. It's nice when you're bundled up warm with a scarf, coat and gloves. This winter I want to get a little woollen knitted hat.
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May, June, July and August are such warm and summery names.

It must be so bizarre sitting in the sun and the month being 'December'.

How does Father Christmas dress in New Zealand? He can't possibly wear a thick red coat and black boots in the middle of summer. Does he wear sun-glasses and red shorts, with two white fluffy bobbley things dangling down? Why would he climb down the chimney when half of New Zealand probably have their windows open?
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Heh... Yeah our Santas sometimes deviate from the traditional Santa look. They wear jandals, shorts and those terrible Hawaiian shirts that were all the rage in the late nineties, early naughties.

You end you with dorks like this:

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Our Xmas lunches/dinners always have salmon, sausages, steak etc. cooked on the BBQ as well as the traditional roast chicken. Boxing Day is spent at the beach and the extra food needed for the picnic is taken into account when cooking the Xmas dinner the day before. So we might cook an extra chicken for it.

I've always wanted to experience a white Christmas. It looks like such a cosy picture having the tree lights on and a fire going in the evening, while it snows outside.
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