How to keep warm

No, but my sister is. Perhaps it rubs off! I, however, am a Scorpio - beware!

anno are you a Gemini? That would totally explain it!

I give up! I've apologised for double posting so often, I might as well admit I'm incorrigible.

Welcome, itsnevertoolate. Enjoy Gransnet. Great advice for those of us who have healthy joints and muscles. For the rest of us: find a strong teenager. Get the local high school to organise a squad of sixth formers to dig out the local grans.

Welcome, itsnevertoolate. Enjoy Gransnet. Great advice for those of us who have healthy joints and muscles. For the rest of us: find a strong teenager. Get the local high school to organise a squad of sixth formers to dig out the local grans.

Just joined gransnet,but if anyone reads this,heres a useful tip to make snow shoveling much easier (especially WET snow!
Polish your snow shovel with car polish-the snow slides off easily then.(was given this tip while living in the Alps!)
if you can keep your shovel somewhere not too cold,even better!

Looks like I am following you around Ariadne, you having trouble sleeping too ? Went to bed at one but hadn't shut my eyes by 3.30 so got up again.

On previous thread too!

In winters sports person faced so many problems as how to keep warm but exercises variety make them to provide a natural lifestyle that include yoga and many more

Yes, Leclerc, Leader Price and Lidl have 'world wines' - but not white Rioja sadly.

My local supermarket has wines from around the world, including Spanish.

Well we are only going across to Normandy so hopefully it will be no worse than here, and I also enjoy a good claret

Good claret is always acceptable too

flickety - It's a bit chilly in France at the moment - so glad you know the tricks of the trade in warming up. Have a great break away.

Sipping a chilled Sauvignon right now. My favourite, which I've recently discovered, is a white Rioja. Unfortunately unavailable in France.

I'm a Sauvignon Blanc girl, thanks flick. I'll look forward to that.

Wow that sounds amazing. I've heard that the snow is different so maybe if I went I might enjoy it. I can't stand the wet horrible stuff we have here which quickly turns into mucky sludge and sharp ice.

Thanks, Bags, I will bring bck some wine and we can all share a Christmas glass. What do you prefer?

Enjoy your visit to France, flickety

or even December !

I find that my flat stays above freezing even if I go away for several weeks in the depths of Winter, but it is extremely well insulated. They know what they are doing when they build in this area.
Yes, the snow here is nothing like the stuff in England. I like to sit outside the hotel at the bottom of the pistes and have a hot chocolate while I watch the skiers performing impossible feats. When I drive home, the lights of the little villages are twinkling all along the valley and they sparkle on the snow. It is quite magical - I live in a picture post card.

Phoenix , how very lovely that sounds . [Christmas smile ]

Well tis 1st Decenbre tommorrow

Tomorrow we are off to our French house for a week. It has been standing unheated for a month so will be very cold.

How to keep warm? electric blanket at night, during the day three layers of sweater, thick socks over tights and lighting the stove and keeping it burning well for thefirst 24 hours, after that the temperature begins to get to a pleasant level and in three days is nicely warm.

Vigorous activity makes me warm but I cool down quite quickly. Unfortunately I couldn't stay active enough for it to keep me warm. I need warm weather or heating for that.

Oh, I don't know, phoenix - I think the gluwein would keep me nicely warm - as long as I kept on drinking it.

This may sound odd, but it's a different sort of snow! Mr P and I spent one magical Christmas in Bavaria, deep snow, bright blue sky, mountains and forests.

On Christmas Eve (which is the big day out there) we went up the nearest mountain, which is quite a small one, and sat outside on the terrace with friends drinking Gluwein (sp?). As the light started to go, we watched as the lights came on in the village below, and all the church bells started to ring. We then went back down to the place where we staying and stood around the bonfire with more gluwein, as Father Christmas arrived on a horse drawn sleigh with a traditional band playing.

Sorry, rather drifted away from the "how to keep warm" theme!