On the sensuousness of wrapping up warmly

Aka - I'm with you on this one! Can't bear to be cold or to have multiple layers of clothing on, which, incidentally, all have to be peeled off when going into the overheated shops!

No, I was born in winter and still hate it.

I came in from a lovely morning outdoors, playing bowls and was feeling really warm and comfortable, the other half, poor soul, who feels the cold since his heart operation, was indoors with the heating turned full blast. Unfortunately I get a little(!) irate at this, because he refuses to put long-johns on indoors or a warmer jumper - these he assure me are for outdoors only. I always think if you are cold - put an extra layer on, and provided the back of my neck and middle back are warm I am fine. Love being outdoors anyway.

When it's really cold I sometimes hop into bed wearing my casual daytime clothes, including scarf, and then gradually disrobe during night time wake ups.

I love opening the door on an early Autumn evening and smelling the leaves and the air. If I didnt have a calendar I think I could guess the date Autumn starts.
On the other hand my exhusband hates the cold weather and I think he suffers from SAD. There is definitely a severe dip in his mood when he has to put the heating on and stop wearing his shorts. Now he is single he books at least 2 holidays in hot places during our Autumn and Winter months.
My partner is from the far east and for some weird reason cant tolerate hot weather any more, he absolutely loves snow, wind, icy cold days and dressing up in his huge padded coat and furry trappers hat.
I also like the Spring, seeing everything burst into life ( sounds like one of the infant songs Ive played and sung a million times) so I must be somewhere in between the 2 extremes.
Im extra aware of the changing of the seasons due I suspect to being rigidly bound to term time working all my life. Everything at infant schools is cyclical and I knew that when Autumn arrived we were "doing" harvest, when Spring arrived we were "doing" eggs, tadpoles, bulbs etc. In my head Im still doing all that I suppose. I have a song for every start, middle, end of each season!
Walking through the park kicking leaves last week with my 59 year old partner I just have to sing the Autumn leaves song!

I hate getting into 'winter' clothes. I feel like a sack of potatoes tied up in the middle. I never wear anything in bed unless, if it's really freezing, I will start off with a T shirt while reading and then take it off once I am warm enough. The thought of being all trussed up in fleecy pj's is too horrendous to contemplate and makes movement and turning over quite an operation - everything gets stuck ; don't even mention the word vest and as for tights under jeans - can't imagine the discomfort. So long as I have a warm/wetproof jacket, a big scarf round my neck and back to stop the drafts and if really cold, boots, a hat and perhaps gloves I'm fine. I love the freedom of summer - shorts and flipflops - roll on December when I shall be in Sydney

there is a temptation though to get into comfy layers and stay there tip spring, looking increasingly scruffy...

Try again

[Grin]

I was born in March in Lancashire and didn't see the sun till I was 17

Just to be plain difficult I was born in September and dislike Summer (too hot) and loathe Autumn and Winter (time to hibernate). I love Spring which is a time of new beginnings. I feel sure Spring is getting shorter though as the other two months encroach upon it

I was a September baby too and the autumn is my favourite season. I feel that September is the time for fresh starts, school, college, clubs, jobs all tend to start or restart in September. I was always given new, warmer clothes for my Birthday and still like to have some new additions to the wardrobe at that time. I am not particularly fond of Winter but absolutely loathe Spring - a very disappointing season with the odd, encouraging blink of sun rapidly overtaken by rain, rain, sleet and more rain.

I am very fond of the comfort of a vest tucked into full sized briefs, knee high socks, trousers and jumper. Think it reminds me of my childhood

I love the Autumn, is it becauseI was born late September? Do any of you love the season you were born in most of all?
Shysal, im with you on the bedclothes. We have a one tog duvet in summer and a 3 tog in Winter. Doesnt help with the menopausal-sleep though!

Aka and gracesmum Brilliant, I love them.

Probably looked like one in it!

I had a long piled brown coat as teenager I called"Bear"

My reply above was to "November", but I do like the A.A Milne too.
In keeping with the general mood how about a bit of Flanders and Swan?

January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.
February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes tight off your feet.
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind!
April brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.
In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it's not.
August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.
Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.
Then October adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.
Freezing wet December, then

Bloody January again!

I love that poem!! It's the antithesis to all those "Season of mists" blah blah Autumn things and I'm sure if he could have got a rhyme for February he'd have written one about that too!

Furry Bear
By A. A. Milne

If I were a bear
And a big bear too,
I shouldn't much care
If it froze or snew;
I shouldn't much mind
If it snowed or friz-
I'd be all fur-lined
With a coat like his!

For I'd have fur boots
And a brown fur wrap,
And brown knickers
And a big fur cap.
I'd have a fur muffle-ruff.
To cover my jaws,
And brown fur mittens
On my big brown paws.
With a big brown furry-down
Up to my head,
I'd sleep all the winter
In a big fur bed.

I wish I was a bear...

Having spent the first 60 years of my life hating coats, I now have an addition to all sorts of outerwear. What's that all about

November

No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!

Thomas Hood

Yes, just so and December, January, February.... any more poems please Grace ?

Winter wise my glass needs to be Full to the Brim just to survive PP

So you are a glass half full girl then Aka I know what you mean though, although I have a job getting one of my dogs out if it rains, lots of muddy paws! I don't like the dark mornings and evenings either. Erh come to think of it, I just like the clothes.

Hmm, not too keen on it then Aka?? [
Remember Thomas Hood's "November"? It would jsut about sum up your sentiments.
I do agree about Jan and Feb though - you get through Christmas and think the next thing is Spring - but it isn't, not by a long chalk!