Is the cold weather making people grumpy?

[salymap]

I once read a book about Pollyanna, who played a terrible thing she called 'Glad Game'. If she broke her leg she was glad it wasn't both legs, etc.

I agree with Cali that a lot of threads seem grumpy and have given up on the Britten one in disgust, not with him but, as someone said in that immortal film The Red Shoes'. "Nothing Matters but the Music".

I'm grumpy with the weather and my painful foot but not my friends on the MBs, signed Pollyanna

[amateur51]

Oh, bog-off Cali - what are you on? It's horrible for those who do not live in the Metropollis seeing another seven or eight inches descending on them and no idea whether they will get to work or land up in a ditch being eaten by Alsatians!!

Perfect, Anna!

[jayne lee wilson]

Don't be unfair to Alsatians, they'd probably drag you out and take you home if you gave them a cuddle! If you're really lucky they might have a barrel of brandy round their necks.

I love-and-hate the cold. Friday in the dry, fluffy snow I was out in my wellies feeding the starving birds (everything from Seagulls to Parakeets) and Mizzy the wegie was armpit deep in it, wading around with that warm double coat. Snow what? Fieldfares eating apples on the frozen lawn (I cleared a patch for them), Jackdaws flocking overhead, the last calls of Robin and Crow as dusk deepens. Me in my old tweed coat, wild-haired in the gloom... wonderful!

But back in the house - constant struggle to keep warm, too much mull makes you tired, I live in dressing-gowns-over-polonecks. Eat more curry and chilli...
A 4 to 1 of boiled water, brandy and honey. Right now!

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't be unfair to Alsatians, they'd probably drag you out and take you home if you gave them a cuddle! If you're really lucky they might have a barrel of brandy round their necks.

I love-and-hate the cold. Friday in the dry, fluffy snow I was out in my wellies feeding the starving birds (everything from Seagulls to Parakeets) and Mizzy the wegie was armpit deep in it, wading around with that warm double coat. Snow what? Fieldfares eating apples on the frozen lawn (I cleared a patch for them), Jackdaws flocking overhead, the last calls of Robin and Crow as dusk deepens. Me in my old tweed coat, wild-haired in the gloom... wonderful!

But back in the house - constant struggle to keep warm, too much mull makes you tired, I live in dressing-gowns-over-polonecks. Eat more curry and chilli...
A 4 to 1 of boiled water, brandy and honey. Right now!

You have parakeets flying wild over Liverpool, JLW?? I thought the escaped/released ones were only in London - and just parts of London at that!

[Nick Armstrong]

Don't be unfair to Alsatians

I was making a silly joke about those nice people in Eastern France who make delicious white wines





PS: Some great images in the remainder of your post, jayne!

[scottycelt]

I may be wrong, but there seems to be a definitely cross and grumpy tone to many threads at the moment. Quite apart from the 'political' ones which I tend to avoid, there seems to be a lot of bad temper and polarised position-taking around, esp re film music, Britten, Whitacre etc etc (even leaving out of account the odd troll-like visitor here and there). Is it a reaction to 'the January freeze', the absence of sunlight?

I'm in the lucky situation of not minding the dark, cold weather too much. With a warm home and a warm work-place, and a not-too-complicated journey between, staying indoors or venturing out and then revelling in the return to warmth, suit me fine for part of the year. (By April if we haven't had some nice weather, I may be bored of it...). But meantime, hot drinks, warming food, excuses to stay in and catch up with CD listening or film watching - it all makes me rather cheerful.

Anyone else notice a rise in grump levels, in themselves or others?

Not particularly, but you don't half sound a wee bit grumpy yourself ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Not particularly, but you don't half sound a wee bit grumpy yourself ...

Projection, your honor!

[Nick Armstrong]

Not particularly, but you don't half sound a wee bit grumpy yourself ...

Grumpy? Moi? Perish the thought, Mr Celt

[teamsaint]

B******x to the snow. Been stuck in it for nearly 4 hours.

[teamsaint]

Sorry if that last post sounded grumply. The cold weather done it .

Grumply ...that is a nice word. I just made that up by mistake.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry if that last post sounded grumply. The cold weather done it .

Grumply ...that is a nice word. I just made that up by mistake.

Furry muff!!

No one's saying folk aren't allowed to be grumpy! Or, a fortiori, grumply.

Have a Tetleys and take the weight off

[JFLL]

B******x to the snow. Been stuck in it for nearly 4 hours.

I thought Venus had rather a warm climate, TS (average 400 C, so they say)?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Love affairs, so common in India, do not interest Polly, but she is hoping that "in a cold climate", society will be less interested in love affairs.

grumply huh

[Bryn]

You have parakeets flying wild over Liverpool, JLW?? I thought the escaped/released ones were only in London - and just parts of London at that!

Well they are all over the south-east. Loads around Windsor and also a fair few around Bracknell.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/ringneckedparakeet/index.aspx

I would not be at all surprised if some had migrated much further north by now.

What are the kippers doing about them? That's what I want to know.

[jayne lee wilson]

You have parakeets flying wild over Liverpool, JLW?? I thought the escaped/released ones were only in London - and just parts of London at that!

Yes, these 3 ring-necks arrived in early December 2012, since when they've been resident in the trees and avenues here, and visit each day to eat nuts and seeds from dispensers. Very striking call, "kew, kew!". A quick google reveals that they bred in a Liverpool park in 2011, so I suspect there's a small population in Liverpool now, as there is in Manchester. They're totally unfazed by the Magpies who mobbed them at first but soon gave up - no response from the cool paras... smaller birds don't worry about them, but they're too big to share a dispenser with...

Relevance to thread.... er, er... I'm less grumpy now the Parakeets are here!