Weather woes!

Disclaimer: This is going to be a random post about the weather

Its cold. Freezing. Arctic.

For someone who was born in January, I have a very strange relationship with the cold weather. Most of the time I love it and find heatwaves unbearable - only the ones where there is no breeze and it's just plain dry heat. I do wonder how I survived for 16 years in the hot, humid climate of Calcutta. Anyway. The cold.

If I am wrapped up and outside, the fresh air and the biting cold are my friends. However, if I'm not covered up and it's cold I will curse and moan and be miserable until I can get some heat. I am the one who gets out of a warm bed / a hot shower and immediately wants the heating on because I'm cold. I am also the one who will have the heating on and the window open to let some fresh air in when it's freezing outside.

And then I choose to come live in Scotland. Heaven AND Hell for me.

At present I am curled up in bed, typing this blog, have the heating on, can hear the wind and rain howling outside and am contemplating getting up and opening the window to let some fresh air in. Go figure

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So the UK, especially England has had some terrible weather recently. All we've heard about is school and road closures and weather warnings and what not and two things come to mind. 

1. WHY can we never cope with the weather? The weather people have been predicting all sorts for absolutely ages and yet, everything comes to a standstill. Especially in Scotland - a country you would think would know to expect these things and then prepare accordingly but no sir, we still choose to run around like headless chickens without any organisation. Why can countries like Canada with -20 + weather be able to function with normality whereas us with our few degrees below freezing weather means we are totally clueless?

2. Saying the above, I personally feel way too much has been made about schools closing and teachers shirking their responsibilities etc and parents having to take time off work etc etc. I mean, seriously? Heads of schools don't take the responsibility of closing a school lightly I would think. I would also think that making sure your child isn't in any danger due to the adverse weather is more important than anything else? Also, I would think that sending kids home on school buses before the roads get too dangerous is the sensible thing to do rather than keep them in school and have some poor bus driver have the responsibility of ferrying these wee souls across and worrying about not skidding and crashing on an icy patch?

Sometimes using some of those brain cells we have is not a bad idea.

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The downside of this weather is that you don't feel like being out and doing things whereas the upside is that you get lots and lots of stuff done because you can't go out and do things. Saying which, I have had a duvet day today and done none of things I should have done having stayed indoors most of the day. Maybe tomorrow.