Now to most people annoyance at the weather is a perfectly natural thing. For me it is a cause for genuine anger and paranoia. I sometimes think the weather is deliberately out to get me. Days when I have to do something important inside, it will be sunny. Days I have to go out and do lots of tasks will be windy and rainy. Of course it's highly likely that since I only notice this because of my paranoia about it, and I simply don't remember sitting inside on a cold, rainy day because I didn't get annoyed by it. It simply passed me by.
It doesn't help however, to live in a flat with the single most inefficient heating system in the World. When converting all the old tennement buildings around here they seem to have simply stuck the radiators in anywhere. And used too small radiators. This means that the only place you can experience genuine warmth is sitting directly in front of them. All other heat simply floats up to the high ceiling and hangs up there. It's possible that it is warm in my flat all the time, but only above 6 feet from the floor. And this doesn't take into account times when the heating is broken, or leaking. Which is seemingly often.
This does lend a certain air of the madhouse to the flat. Finding us sitting around in hats and jackets, or cradling hot water bottles whilst surfing the internet is probably quite amusing for visitors. And sometimes it is colder in the flat than outside, which I've been told is physically impossible, but alas is true. So there disproves another of those stupid laws of thermodynamics.
Anyway, I'm sure I sound like I'm whinging, when I'm sure it's not that cold and if I manned up a bit none of this would seem like a problem. My main complaint about the weather is the huge innaccuracies made when trying to report it. For instance three days ago the BBC weather report predicted high winds and heavy snowfall for Glasgow for yesterday. In the end it was calm, with no snow, but still very cold. All record of prediction has been wiped from the BBC website in a manner that would surely please The Party from 1984. And it is often that massively wrong when trying to predict anthing further away than three hours. Why can they just not say "we think it might be like this" rather than stating the weather prediction as if it were fact. I mean, I'd planned to go sledging and everything.
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