Should we be using winter tyres in the UK?

Schmenke, you get headaches from rapid air pressure changes? I get aching knees when low pressure systems are coming....I feel the pain in a sense....

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

-9 today. Beautiful winter day. Makes me think I should take up skiing again....

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I've been thinking about the same thing. -21 outside and plus 22 inside. :)

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Originally Posted by Daniel

You should be able to get a grant for cavity wall insulation non?

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Probably hasn't cavity walls, few terrace houses have.
Mine's 1890, so is two bricks thick, no cavity, like most of them. We added a layer of Kingspan outside under render (to the front only) and it's cartainly better.

A New Zealander delivered something to my yard today. It's his first ever snow. He was in a little van, like a Kangoo, and made it down my home-made lane with it's foot of virgin snow no worries. He also asked why so many Brits are such rotten drivers in this weather :laugh:
Three weeks here and he knows the score :D

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Originally Posted by DexDexter

I've been thinking about the same thing. -21 outside and plus 22 inside. :)

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Sounds like a good day to sit by the fire and Apres Ski with a nice drink...

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Originally Posted by Hazell B

Probably hasn't cavity walls, few terrace houses have.
Mine's 1890, so is two bricks thick, no cavity, like most of them. We added a layer of Kingspan outside under render (to the front only) and it's cartainly better.

A New Zealander delivered something to my yard today. It's his first ever snow. He was in a little van, like a Kangoo, and made it down my home-made lane with it's foot of virgin snow no worries. He also asked why so many Brits are such rotten drivers in this weather :laugh:
Three weeks here and he knows the score :D

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Ah fair enough, I'm not really au fait with construction types around here if I'm honest!

I've always wondered how Finns and Canadians and the like deal with the temperature difference. You wrap up warm go outside and then walk into a shop with the heating on full whack and you start to sweat.

I can cope with the cold weather well, as soon as it gets even a bit breezy I suffer and freeze up.

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Originally Posted by Drew

I've always wondered how Finns and Canadians and the like deal with the temperature difference. You wrap up warm go outside and then walk into a shop with the heating on full whack and you start to sweat.

I can cope with the cold weather well, as soon as it gets even a bit breezy I suffer and freeze up.

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Wear layers...and some stores don't over heat the place. We are sort of used to it....We put up with it to get the glory of a Canadian summer ( or a Finnish summer that would be just as amazing). Nothing better than a beautiful July day sitting by the water with a cold beverage with friends. You lock that memory in your mind and gets you through the long winter....

We are up to just under a foot of snow in total now, though it has been building up for the past few weeks bit by bit. Warm enough in our living room which has a big (new-ish) radiator but the rest of the house is chilly but not too uncomfortable. Or big problem is the village roads are snowed/iced up, and the ruts in the road are solid ice of about 3 inches, meaning it is nearly impossible to move cars from the road into the parking at the side of the street :s My parents aren't trusting enough to let anyone go out in a car so I've not had a chance to go out in it :bigcry:

Plan is to go out tomorrow up the hills and take plenty of photos before it all disappears :(

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6059718_n.jpg

The temperature this morning was -11c, but it is now a very tropical +1c.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

We are up to just under a foot of snow in total now, though it has been building up for the past few weeks bit by bit. Warm enough in our living room which has a big (new-ish) radiator but the rest of the house is chilly but not too uncomfortable. Or big problem is the village roads are snowed/iced up, and the ruts in the road are solid ice of about 3 inches, meaning it is nearly impossible to move cars from the road into the parking at the side of the street :s My parents aren't trusting enough to let anyone go out in a car so I've not had a chance to go out in it :bigcry:

Plan is to go out tomorrow up the hills and take plenty of photos before it all disappears :(

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6059718_n.jpg

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You have more snow than I have right now....but that is ok. Oshawa is in a seam between snow belts, we rarely see the snow that places 20 miles north of us get or the whole south shore of Lake Ontario see....