I just put my oodie on I think I’m going to be in it all day except for meal time and cooking.
Argh just the thought of preparing food is making me cold.
I really need to get one of those. All rugged up and have uggs and heater on and I’m still freezing
Check out the oodie website. They have some cheap ones going for 39 dollars as long you don’t mind the design.
Thanks for the tip, will check that out
Maybe try and to throw on something nice and woollen or two light jumpers.
Ive also got Ugg boots on as well.
l am disappointed that there is no snow
It’s - 0.7 here. Snow would make this more bearable.
snow is so pretty
there may be snow by morning 😄
I haven’t seen snow for the longest time 🥲
Here’s Casey in the snow
spoiler
The fuzzy little one is under the doona with the electric blanket on. Now to make a hottie and see if I can wiggle in.
Edit: I bought the knockoff oodie a day or two ago
My fuzzy one is the hot water bottle.
I know our cold tolerance is all different but maaaaan people watching is insane today. The battle between fashion and function. Cool guys who chucked on a vest and went “that’ll do” or insisted a cap is good enough over a beanie. The Middle aged professional looks great in her business gear, but I’m questioning pants that are basically 3 quarters in length cause she’s gotta be regretting the amount of skin exposed on her legs. Then sensible ones who layered up, people who tried to make the puffer jacket cool (largely successfully I must say) and then there is those of us who went “fuck it, warm is more important” and just threw something together. I don’t think my gloves are even the same colours, if anyone asks I’m just gonna say I can tell which is my left and which is my right.
as a research academic (I.e. very few student facing days), my “middle aged professional” cold weather gear is a pair of blunnies (over thick socks), jeans, shirt and v-neck jumper under a long wool coat with a scarf/cowl.
basically, switch the blunnies for other shoes, drop the coat and scarf and it’s all remarkably similar to my all-weather, middle aged professional look.
more effort made on occasion when visiting 50 Lonsdale.
more effort made on occasion when visiting 50 Lonsdale.
Not too much effort I hope. Don’t be showing up us regulars there :)
I swap the cons/chucks for r m Williams to match the rest of the policy wonks…
The wonks wear RMWs, us real workers wear Docs
I used to have the wool jacket, but these days its either a Northface or a Jack Wills puffer i got from the UK. I prefer the wool look, its much more classy, but I find the puffer much warmer.
I’m just a sucker for a winter coat! puffy jackets are way more practical, though
Coming from a colder climate, it amazes me how much emphasis there is here for ‘looking the part’ instead of being comfortable.
I think the difference is death. Ok not really. But in anything colder than this you’ve simply gotta treat it more seriously.
Hahaha…yeah exposure is definitely more a thing in Canada. I don’t get why someone would choose to be uncomfortable, even for a few minutes. The cap example is hilarious. If you’re worried about ruining your hair, you’re not going to wear a hat regardless. Throw a beanie on and keep the ears warm dang it!!
one dude had an answer to that: Over ear headphones. Honestly a pretty elegant solution. They were both really strange. one guy had a cool hoodie and a vest and that was it, which didnt seem enough. Another was cap and jumper as if he didnt feel the cold but with a scarf on as well. Its like bro are you cold or not?
I used to have a great cold weather look when I was working in the city (many years ago). Long black coat, suede gloves with fur trim, and a black fur scarf and hat. Now that I I only have a few minutes passing between car and buildings I am much more the random hodge-podge look.
Back in the day when I was a young fella I put in a lot more effort. Nice black business jacket, matching scarf and gloves. These days…. Haha less so. Works lucky I put on pants that arnt trackies.
Frozen Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Cold chicken, ice cream, iced coffee and some chilly sauce please.
🧊🍗🍨☕️🥛🌶️🧊
It’s cold comfort, but thank you.
Can I please get an iced coffee?
🧊☕️🥛🧊
Coffee fro-yo plz chef
🧊☕️🍦🧊
Borscht and a martini please chef
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🧊🥘🍸🧊
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Jamaican goat curry and a maitai please
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🧊🇯🇲🐐🥘🍹🧊
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-4.3!!! Fuuuuuuck
I need a snack and the loo but I don’t want to get up 🧊
-2 here, feels like -6. I am staying in my nice warm bed until conditions are more civilised.
The Mill Brewery are taking over the Bendigo Hotel, and keeping the bandroom.
I hope we can still get the same kind of music instead of turning into whatever the fuck the espy is these days
They do 6.66% beers, and a few Death Metal flyer artists have done their cans.
which coffee is the most easy to get in winter?
answer
a cold brrrrrrrrew
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Perfect emoji
This is punny and I love it
My neighbour’s backyard looks frozen solid
Went to get the bins and the grass was crunchy as
14° downstairs at 645 this morning. Thermometer is nears the front door so probably the coldest place in the house. Not too bad all things considering.
17 inside when I left the house at 6am, not too shabby.
Of course walking outside into the -2 degree morning was a wake up call…
17 is just lovely. Getting the bins was a rude awakening. Roof on one my neighbour’s houses shows a perfect frost line as the sun moves
7° here ❄️
14’s pretty good! it was 7 in my place at 6:30.
Yikes!
Since putting in hybrid flooring over our old tiles, indoor temp downstairs has gone up about 5 ° in the winter.
Best investment ever
yeah I’m tipping my hybrid flooring helped a lot over the previous “lets glue vinyl flooring direct to the slab” solution implemented by the builders. Our problem is draughts. The seals on the windows are rooted, the windows are single glaze and cheap and the back door has a gap big enough to stick a finger through.
Not really problems 80% of the year though so bit hard to throw any serious money at it all.
Our windows are single glazed, and since the house was built in the early 90s, the glass thickness is 0.5 mm less than the current standard. We had to replace a pane a few years ago, and the installer had to widen the channels in the frames cause they were slightly too small.
We do have roller shutters and curtains which help with the cold slightly.
For the window seals, if you’re planning on replacing them eventually, run silicone or sicaflex along the edges. Doesn’t look flash, but helps a lot.
For the window seals, if you’re planning on replacing them eventually, run silicone or sicaflex along the edges. Doesn’t look flash, but helps a lot.
I mean… Screw it, its a shit seal anyway why not. Cant look any worse than it does.
It was 7 in my bedroom when I woke up as well.
Oh man I thought today was gonna be cruisey, and I did finish nearly everything by 1pm and stretched out my time at uni a bit, but being the conscientious idiot that I am, I decided to do one last work task when I got back to make up a lil bit of the 2 hours I was away (even though the deadline isn’t due for ages and nobody’s keeping track of my hours at this job)…
…what was supposed to be a quick half an hour jobbie spiraled into hours because there was a fundamental issue with the entire thing - like, someone’s property boundary might be so off that either they or Council are in big trouble. It’s way beyond my experience or pay grade, but I just can’t let a bit of good problem-solving go…
At least it wasn’t outrageous, I came home around 4:15pm and wrapped up around 8pm. Dinner, shower, bunch of tidying up, and now bed.
Also bloody hell, I think I do need a new chair, or at least reevaluate my seating height; my neck and back haven’t responded well to wfh today. Alright, NO overworking the next two days.
Rising up from within, the toll of evolution,
I am not without sin, but I’m not here for procreation.
These rolling waves of pain, the tides of boiling crimson,
Turn into red stains, fuck you menstruation.Get me my chocolate! Get me my wheat bag! Cancel the meeting! Not leaving this seating!
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me…"
“Bom, bom, bom, bom…”
“So help me! So help me! And cut. We’re still working on it, it’s a work in progress but, hey, we need ushers.”
My new rule is that when it gets below a degree in temperature, I huddle in bed with Gibson and listen to audiobooks.
Nothing of value can be done at this time lol
standing offer of heating, bean bags , cats, landlord sniping, yadda yadda. I’ll get the muffins on.
I come for the landlord sniping, and I’ll stay for the cats lol
Can’t feel toes, please send cat slippers
Note to self : remove cats from slippers first.
I used to threaten to turn the previous pair into slippers, so…
I also already have a well insulated house, but definitely +1 for the landlord sniping, always willing to help the cause.
Plus, muffins!
Ooh, I’ll have 2 cats and a muffin with butter and Vegemite please :-)
I’ll bring my yarn and hook. I can crochet some beanies and mittens for everyone.
…mittens for my kittens?
Yeah, why not? Then we shall have some pie.
landlord sniping
The bloke who owns my joint is a cheap fuck. Wont get the door seals fixed, wont let me run the heater all night and his mrs keeps leaving all the blinds open!
Its me. I’m the cheap fuck.
the sadistic fuck! Have you tried a sternly worded letter?
Nah, but there’s a not 0 chance I’ll sleep with his mrs at some point to get back at him.
Just for a bit of fun, I decided to get on the little dog’s bed and mess up his blankets. Oh boy. He did not like it one little bit. He tried to nuzzle me off, snorting like a horse.
My version of that is when I need to move the cat off of the bed and she will very gently start nibbling my arm.
