What are you wearing - to stay warm?

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Long sleeved, scarf, boots jacket... then I used a very comfy and thick blanket.

I'm happy that spring is well on the way here and I am hoping I shan't need any of the thick jerseys or thermal socks that kept me snug in the winter. With luck, there will be no more morning frosts although I am told not to plant out seedlings until Labour Day (end of October) so there is still a risk. I folded and stored the blanket that I had put on top of the duvet about a month ago but am still wearing long-sleeved pyjamas at night. I am so looking forward to summer and became almost jealous when I saw a thread on GN complaining about the heat only a month or so ago.

It's still warm here in Essex and set to get warmer this week. Up to 25 degrees again

I think you mean to stay cool!

Another example of a spammer resurrecting an old thread to try for some "free" advertising. If you look at the OP - written in December 2011.

I'm currently wearing a hot bottle tucked down the front of my jumper & very cosy it is too.

It's September!!! It's not cold!

It might be ok where you are but I'm in NE Scotland, weather's dull dreary wet & not very warm. I've even got the fire laid in case I need it later.

To make it worse I woke up this morning with a streaming cold so having to put off my visit to DGC. & can't visit OH in hospital, who's too confused to be able to understand why I won't be in today.

Just feel in need of a bit of pampering.

Oh you poor thing - pamper away!! Hot toddy is my "go to" in such cases! So sorry to hear about your OH too. A bit of is what you need.

Thanks Soutra, Not sure about the hot toddy, but away to get some tomato soup & toast for lunch.

Where I live it gets mighty cold- the recors is minus 41.8C! Yep- no wonder it is called Little Siberia. The key to keeping warm is LAYERS- much better than 1 very thick top. And keep moving. The good thing is that our cold here is DRY- so it feels much less cold than in the UK. And at least houses are properly insulated and with good central heating + wood burning stove often. In our last house in the UK we had Kritter leaded windows- I had to put sausages of Blue (well white actually) tack to fill the gaps, and we often had damp dripping on the inside and often actual icycles- and it was single brick too. (Mind you, I just lvoed that house- now a childrens' nursery).

Most people are still walking around in T-shirts or even vest tops. There are still plenty of people wearing shorts in my little bit of S.E.
DH did say he passed a guy wearing a sheepskin coat earlier

I`m still in my t-shirts or tunic tops, determined not to wear a coat to town on Saturdays, not until it really does turn much cooler, it gets so warm trudging around in a coat in the sunshine. And I wear sandals all year round, except when it`s snowy, or REALLY cold, then the boots come out, but only when absolutely necessary.

I have just come indoors as was getting so warm in the garden. Poor Scotlanders.

Silk long sleeve vests and silk long johns are the best base layer (see www.patra.com)

It is 13 degrees here, drizzle and fog. Central heating is on but there is that cold damp feeling that just turns to clammy when/if it warms up.

www.patra.com
sorry

Did you mean Crittall steel or aluminum windows * granjura? Thry were popular in the first half of last century weren't they and as well aas being single-glazed were notoriously draughty. They have a certain cult following in houses of that period but most people have double or triple glazing these days even in traditionak houses. Energy ratings are very important zo the value of a property if you are selling or buying.

13!

See. It already is another country.

13? I have been out all day wandering around a garden with friends, we were all in short-sleeved t-shirts and tunics and it's currently 21C at 17.40pm!

The in-laws are oop narth in their holiday home at the moment, near Alnwick, no wonder they just posted a photo of themselves in padded gilets!,

If Scotland was independent would the average temperature in England, Wales and Northern Ireland rise?
Now there's a thought- colder together?

It has been a lovely sunny warm day here, but the nights are getting cooler now.... naturally.
I'm just in jeans and t-shirt right now, but a cardigan will be needed by 7 o'clock probably. Then I get into my jim-jams and dressing gown about 9 ish and snuggle with my teddy bears on the sofa. Sad, ain't it!

No, it sounds idyllic! DBH gets home around then tonight and I shall have to look awake and interested!

Crittall windows Soutra! I have seen a property programme where people were lovingly restoring them, even interior ones. We had them replaced as soon as we had the money because they were so prone to condensation and had hideous heavy secondary double glazing to make an attempt to keep out the cold. Now I feel like those people who went around ripping out Victorian fireplaces and junking William Morris tiles . But they were hideous windows and much better suited to greenhouses which Crittall also made.