A unique Christmas.

[the other bob wilson]

2024 was the first Christmas I can remember when I didn’t switch the radiators on at all, this in a year when, for the first time, they were on quite often during June.

[splott parker]

Re: A unique Christmas.

We haven’t needed to but I do put them on for an hour or so to sort of stop any mustiness.

[William Treseder]

Re: A unique Christmas.

What seems odd about Christmas to me, is almost every Christmas card and Christmas scene I’ve ever looked at, has snow in it.
At the age of 61, I can only remember seeing snow on Christmas Day in Cardiff once. Might be wrong, but I can only recall it happening once.

[Heathblue]

Re: A unique Christmas.

Yes, was the same. We did have 12 in the house so more body heat than normal but when the girls were doing the dinner (I was project manager) we even had windows open, at around 23.00 and everyone had gone, we had a fan heater on for the last hour, seems pretty mild at the moment.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: A unique Christmas.

We haven’t needed to but I do put them on for an hour or so to sort of stop any mustiness.

Get yourself a dehumidifier.

[Moodybluebird]

Re: A unique Christmas.

It was a bit nipper earlier this month and at the end of November (hence the snow) but it seems to have warmed up a bit this week.

I've a gut feeling we're going to have a few more colder and possibly snowier days this winter than has been the case over recent times, so stock up on your kindling, logs and coal.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: A unique Christmas.

What seems odd about Christmas to me, is almost every Christmas card and Christmas scene I’ve ever looked at, has snow in it.
At the age of 61, I can only remember seeing snow on Christmas Day in Cardiff once. Might be wrong, but I can only recall it happening once.

The custom of sending Christmas cards started in the mid 19th century and became the popular tradition it is now in the 1880's. This coincided with a decade-long mini freeze which saw snowfalls pretty much every Christmas, hence the cards invariably depicting snowy scenes..

[Moodybluebird]

Re: A unique Christmas.

The custom of sending Christmas cards started in the mid 19th century and became the popular tradition it is now in the 1880's. This coincided with a decade-long mini freeze which saw snowfalls pretty much every Christmas, hence the cards invariably depicting snowy scenes..

If the trend started in the last decade, the cards would depict beach scenes not snow scenes if you get my drift (pardon the pun).

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: A unique Christmas.

Just found some caterpillars in the garden. Crazy on Boxing Day.