Cold or just cold.

[HillBill]

I got roundly told off last week by a Doctor because I wasn't wearing boots, and hat and scarf and gloves.....I was sitting in a hospital and I was so warm that I'd taken my wool coat off.....and he's giving me a row.

I worked and played outdoors, I still prefer to be outdoors, honestly, I was too warm there. It was suffocatingly stuffily warm.

Anyhow, true story....many years ago I was pushing my eldest in a buggy and the wind was blowing right onto us. Winter, damp and cold and my hands were freezing. We passed an old lady (you ignore no one round here, it's just not done) and I said, "Aye, it's cold", and sort of commiserated. That old lady had no gloves on, and she took my hand and her hands were roasting hot.
"Worked in the dairy since I was 14, there's nae heat in a dairy".....and she was warm, she was more than warm.
She worked day in day out in icy cold water making butter and her hands and forearms were warm.

Humans adjust.

Stands to reason. Probably told you before i was homeless for a while pre buggering off to get myself killed (yet another of my life's failures) Reckon the same worked for me. That and Northern blood. We are what we are. I excpect i'll be freezing my bottom off if manage another decade... until then, i'll just continue to steam from my head and fog up my glasses when its cold lol.

 

[Springchicken]

I love the cold: there is something undeniably refreshing and clean about it. The sweatiness of a hot day just makes me irritable and frustrated.

There's a lot to be said about the conditioning idea. I am outdoors every day and live in a very drafty, stone house in which the central heating system barely makes any difference to the ambient temperature. As a result, I've grown used to a chilly environment.

There is huge pleasure in dressing for the cold and, more importantly, remaining comfortable in it, no matter what you're doing.

 

[Aristotle]

I do think modern life and its conveniences is tempering us to be collectively to the most part what I think of as 'soft'.

Not just household heating and cooling and expecting that everywhere but heated car seats and heated steering wheels. I know I mentioned it elsewhere but battery heated gilets and body warmers.

I do wonder if with each step of these conveniences we take are somewhat changing our concept of comfort/discomfort and what is simply differently tolerable.

Absolutely.

Humans adapt.

Many people seldom experience anything other than a controlled 21DegC (or do much other than sitting in a chair/car/sofa or lying in bed).

I cycle to work year-round. I know what clothing to wear for the conditions whilst pedalling hard without overheating. Colleagues think I am crazy( and/or a superhero). It is NW England rather than northern Siberia, though.

Yesterday I went for a muddy, partially ankle deep in water, off-road run in rain and hail. I was wearing a wind shell over a long sleeved wicking top.

I often find being out in bad conditions quite exhilarating. It is, of course, less risky when you know that you can change into dry clothes when you have finished.

 

[TLM]

Well, you can always add more clothes but only take off so much ...

 

[TeeDee]

I looked elsewhere on a YT rabbit hole and interestingly Japanese houses new and older don't seem to favour CH that much.

 

[Brizzlebush]

I looked elsewhere on a YT rabbit hole and interestingly Japanese houses new and older don't seem to favour CH that much.

Fascinating, thanks.

 

[demented dale]

This thread is prompted by a number of recent discussions about jackets and hot tents.

You will just have to believe that it is only a discussion and not me playing macho games. I do not think that I am any different from outdoors people of my generation.
More importantly this isn’t any kind of triumphalism. The list of things that I can no longer do outdoors resembles Santa’s naughty list.

So:
Do you draw a distinction between feeling cold and being cold?

I love feeling the cold on my nose, ears and finger tips.
If my toes start to feel cold that’s the first distant warning.

I do not allow myself to GET cold, to BE cold. I have the right, somewhat dated, clothes and sleep system which includes a hot water bottle.

I am an avid winter camper but I’ve never even been in a hot tent, let alone owned a tent stove. I’m pretty certain that I wouldn’t like it.

Part of this attitude is perception. For example: I cannot think that it has been cold here in the Midlands this year. Last night I was out in a very light frost baking bread on a fire. Why? TBA! My windscreen has been frozen maybe half a dozen times so far this year.

In my terms it simply isn’t cold weather. (Yet)

If you prefer a hot tent then of course enjoy it. This thread isn’t intended to judge or criticise.

Are there others out there who enjoy the cold?

I love it. my fave weather is blue sky, bitter cold, with or with out frost. An outside fire and my ww2 sheepskin flying jacket. I live outside all year round and we don't really experience the cold so much these days. I witness maybe half a dozen days a year when it merits recognition as cold and even that is not mega cold. When I was about 8 I did a sponsored walk and the wind was the coldest I have ever been. It bit my face. On the way back I walked past my warm house and could have given up but I didnt and walked 4 more miles to complete and then walked home. I have been in minus 15 in Sweden and minus 35 on Svalbard and I have never felt anything like as cold as that day fifty years ago in Lancashire. x

 

[TeeDee]

Another option.

 

[Broch]

I don't mind any weather as long as I can do what I plan to do - and that may be sitting in front of the log fire with a wee dram and a book

I like desert hot, tropical hot, arctic cold, even British cold, but days like today, hovering at zero, can't decide if it wants to snow or rain, the ground is soaking, the snow is slush, I can't get anything done - oh, hang on, there's always the fire and a book; I just need to re-plan and pretend that's what I wanted to do anyway

 

[HillBill]

I don't mind any weather as long as I can do what I plan to do - and that may be sitting in front of the log fire with a wee dram and a book

I like desert hot, tropical hot, arctic cold, even British cold, but days like today, hovering at zero, can't decide if it wants to snow or rain, the ground is soaking, the snow is slush, I can't get anything done - oh, hang on, there's always the fire and a book; I just need to re-plan and pretend that's what I wanted to do anyway

Destroying Axis and Japanese forces for me this evening. With a little Rum of course.