London’s Weather: England wants to know how we handle the cold

According to this morning’s issue of The London Free Press, my fellow Londoners (in Canada, eh) have been handling the weather so well this winter visitors are coming from London, England to see how we do it.

Well, how do we do it?

These thoughts come to mind:

Warm clothes - per capita, we buy winter clothing in large quantities. When parkas, boots, mittens, scarves and toques go on sale they’re sold out in minutes. (I’m wearing three pairs of fleece-lined underpants while I speak).


["Sure it's cold but we're goin' swimmin' after brekkie" photos GAH]

Experience - we recognize snow when we see it and know how to use salt, sand, shovels and scoops. ‘Snow removal’ is regularly listed as a child’s favourite school subject - right behind ‘recess.’


Our creative spirit - when nature hands us lemons Londoners make ice cold lemonade. We don’t sit in our homes afraid of the cold. We embrace it and invent such things as oil furnaces, insulation, hockey, toboggans, snow ball fights and universal health care.

The people of England have much to learn.

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