April 07, 2006
Bloody cold
There were times in Amsterdam when, as I was cycling through yet another rainshower of biblical-sized-raindrops, with a radiant air temperature of 2 C and an icey cold wind cutting down the canals from the IJ, I consoled myself with the thought that at least once I was back in Melbourne it would never seem cold again.
So, why, now that autumn has really settled in here and we are suffering maximums of 18C (a temperature that only three months ago would have seemed to me a reasonable summers day, not a brilliant one, but reasonable...) am I so bloody cold?
Yesterday the central heating man came to service the thing and Thank-God-I-Say because it was freezing here! After he'd left I celebrated by having the heating on ALL afternoon and evening. Everyone in the house is wearing the traditional wilderness fleecies we don at this time of year and Jacob has been FORBIDDEN to step one foot outside without an overcoat.
The Dutchman meanwhile persists in wandering around in a t-shirt and sniggering everytime anyone complains of the cold.
Meanwhile, in the Pijp, Spring has sprung they tell me with sunny days and temperatures soaring to 8 C. I can still remember my spirits soaring with the mercury one day when I realised it was 11 C and spring had well-and-truly-arrived!
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