It has been freezing cold here.....-12 oC today with wind chill taking it down to -20 oC. It's pretty grim when it gets that cold. Yesterday I went to get gas (petrol) and pump up the car tyres and forgot to take a woolly hat and gloves. I almost lost an ear and it took about 30 minutes for the blood to start flowing through my hands afterwards. Brrrrrrr!!! It's so bloody cold that our bathroom pipes have frozen.....with us living in the house with the heating on full blast.
The laziness of Christmas has been interspersed by a few outings. We spent an eclectic time at John and Cecile Allison's on Christmas night with John's mum and dad, his brother and wife (who hunts deer for food with a high powered rifle) and a Bulgarian accordion player called Raddo. Lots of eating and drinking was followed by lots of loud singing and playing of the accordion. Cecile is French and is quite possibly the world's greatest cook. We hit the Carnegie Science Centre for an afternoon of fun and took in the Roboworld exhibition, went for a freezing walk at Raccoon Creek (where we often swim in the summer) and did some sledding in Chatham College which is round the corner from our house. I sold a bike on ebay and immediately went out and bought another. This is definitely a mid-life crisis bike (another one) as it is designed for going fast fast fast.
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Nice bike! Looks like you are having fun over there.
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