Good Lord, it's cold this morning. -4, feels like -7.

#Weather

@Florence

Brrrrr!! 😱 Where are you, if you don't mind me asking?

@see_the_sus I truly don't think I've EVER known it to be this cold here.

@Florence

I wondered as I don't think I've ever heard it getting that cold in the UK.

Are you letting your faucets trickle water so they don't freeze?

@see_the_sus Plus, my other half comes from Chicago so he thinks I'm a weakling for complaining about it!

@Florence @see_the_sus Ha. I went to HS in Minneapolis before climate change. Snow would forgo MN and drop in IL where it was warmer. Every year Chicago had to borrow snow removal equipment from Mpls, like it was some big surprise. (But I admit that UK cold is very damp, so it has a different feel.)

@Notokay @see_the_sus It really IS a different 'cold', you're absolutely right.

@Florence @Notokay

I went from NM to IN and yeah, the humidity was a bear!

@see_the_sus @Notokay I can imagine. I feel ya though as I've spent most of my life switching between one country or continent after another! My childhood was very peripatetic and so I think it's in my genes now!

@Florence @Notokay

I’m an Army brat and though I came along at the end of my dad’s career, I moved only once while he was active, I caught the bug BIG TIME. 😄
As an adult, I’ve lived in 5 states and still hoping to get back to Europe. I was born in Naples but we were only there for three years. 😭

@see_the_sus @Florence Faculty brat here, then a dual-career academic. 10 states, three other countries.

@Notokay @see_the_sus I had a guardian who was a musician, with whom I went to live when I was six. Spent the nexgt 10/15 years going around the world on tour etc. Then went to Uni, then worked with a job I could move countries a lot (requirement) and so I think I was lucky really, it gave me flexibility and also a famiiarity with 'the different'.

@Florence @see_the_sus Not just familiarity with 'the different', but flexibility of thinking and understanding. And something monocultural (and sometimes provincial) people call "bravery." I moved from one side of the state to another to take a new job and one of my colleagues called me very brave?

@Notokay @see_the_sus I think people fear what they're unfamiliar with. I was home-schooled because of the traveling. By someone who left school at 15 but had intelligence, an inquiring mind and a freedom of spirit and soul. I always think my education, such as it was, was broader than conventional schooling. It gave me an openness to other cultures and ways of life I doubt I'd otherwise have. For which I'm truly grateful.

@Florence @see_the_sus Oh, indubitably. I homeschooled my kids at various points and it was a fabulous adventure.

@Notokay @see_the_sus That's EXACTLY the way I'd describe it. I totally agree.