Cold weather
8 January 2021 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeHow on earth have I managed to acquire a streaming cold when I haven't so much as spoken to another human being since last Saturday?
(In fact I've had my usual succession of colds with precisely the usual frequency since last spring; I think my mother must have been right, and that the constant nose-blowing is some kind of generalised allergy to the world rather than an actual infection. But I've currently got an awful lot of handkerchiefs in the ironing pile...)
I have acquired an impressive collection of chilblains -- including an implausibly large one on the underside of my big toe where it must have been pressed against the chilly floor, as opposed to the customary collection of swellings on the tips or sides of my digits -- and have progressed to the three-jumper and two-pairs-of-socks stage. (I'm currently wearing two thermal vests -- a 'heat-tech' T-shirt on top of an oldfashioned sleeved vest -- to compensate for the fact that today's selection of jumpers is a bit skimpier than yesterday's.) And on a couple of occasions I have worn (a) a night-cap and (b) a silk handkerchief knotted around my head. I have also taken to wearing my cycling neck-gaiter under my woolly hat outdoors as a sort of compound balaclava, the only part exposed being a triangle of mouth and nose for breathing purposes, plus the eyes peeping out from under the low-pulled hat-brim.
And I've got a split in the end of one finger that may be a paper cut but I suspect is just a spontaneous parting of the fibres, also cold-related :-(
(In fact I've had my usual succession of colds with precisely the usual frequency since last spring; I think my mother must have been right, and that the constant nose-blowing is some kind of generalised allergy to the world rather than an actual infection. But I've currently got an awful lot of handkerchiefs in the ironing pile...)
I have acquired an impressive collection of chilblains -- including an implausibly large one on the underside of my big toe where it must have been pressed against the chilly floor, as opposed to the customary collection of swellings on the tips or sides of my digits -- and have progressed to the three-jumper and two-pairs-of-socks stage. (I'm currently wearing two thermal vests -- a 'heat-tech' T-shirt on top of an oldfashioned sleeved vest -- to compensate for the fact that today's selection of jumpers is a bit skimpier than yesterday's.) And on a couple of occasions I have worn (a) a night-cap and (b) a silk handkerchief knotted around my head. I have also taken to wearing my cycling neck-gaiter under my woolly hat outdoors as a sort of compound balaclava, the only part exposed being a triangle of mouth and nose for breathing purposes, plus the eyes peeping out from under the low-pulled hat-brim.
And I've got a split in the end of one finger that may be a paper cut but I suspect is just a spontaneous parting of the fibres, also cold-related :-(
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Date: 2021-01-09 05:24 pm (UTC)Thanks! I think it's mainly self-inflicted (I could run the heating for more than a couple of hours a day, and could turn it up considerably higher), but I'm used to it.
My toes were exceedingly cold when I was cycling to market this morning, though; I considered coming home and immersing them in a bowl of hot water, but by the time I'd unpacked (and chopped, and frozen) all my purchases they seemed to have warmed up again. There's nothing like going outdoors to make the indoors feel warm! (Especially when you've left a baked potato in the oven...)