life under -10 degree

in case, dear reader, thou hast wondered y i didn' blog these days, i have tried to withstand a winterly weather which confronts me with temperatures down to -12 c. this is not just the normal cold! my heating is fighting hard to cope with the temperatures and i'm very grateful for itz mometary eternal struggle to keep the warmth up in my badly insulated home. Very surprisingly indeed after at least a minimum of 5 repairs last year, i have astonighingly hot water. I can even take a hot bath with say 42 c. i can't remember when tht was possible last in cold winter. So i don't have to rely on hot soup and hot water bottles as much as i had to do in recent years and do rely benefit from a feeling of warmth all over the body rather than only in selected places. Talking about going outside. itz a real no, no. But then again it gets inavoidable as the fridge slowly gets drenched of edible stuff. I do have an extensive lot of winter clothes which i can happily display this year due to constant cold. But then i'm still prone to fatal errors. Yesterday i put my pink furry coat on display and then walked a lot, so i got hot, as i also added obviously too many layers underneath. Then i changed into a thinner jacket and oh boy, i lived to regret it!! With these temperatures a jacket is a fatal choice and a coat is the only thing that keeps one from freezing alive.
Gosh i can't remember when i last felt my behind freezing while walking and my thigh musles slowly cramping up due to the cold. On top theres this icy wind. no, i don't wanna deter anybody from visiting this oh so beautiful country, but don't dare to come in january or febuary for a tour of the usual sites! My region is not even hard hit i see on the news. The south suffers a happy -28 c at nite. me thought those temperatures where only possible in Russia. but u never know wot happens next and wot changes you have to cope an adept to next time u open ur eyes....