How to survive winter in England | Canadian living in the UK

[@malarkey2217]

There was a truck in the newspaper the other day called 'Gritter Thunberg'. Well i liked it! ☺

[@hairyairey]

I'd worry that one wouldn't turn up to work...

[@righthandofdoom77]

They tried naming one Gary Gritter but that was shut down pretty quickly.

[@EASYTIGER10]

There's so much fake grit sold online these days, our local supplier had to change their name to 'True Grit'

[@dog6647]

There is one in Leeds called the Yorkshire Gritter.

[@malarkey2217]

@@dog6647 I think i will choose to think that it rhymes with 'bitter'. ☺

[@Mike-zg1ml]

The thought of a pint by the pub fire brings a tear to my eye, god i miss it.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Someday!

[@dave_h_8742]

Roast dinner, pint and roaring fire 😥

[@me-in-Australia]

I kind you not. Born and lived most of my life in London, the posh part, elephant and castle, I am ready yo move back to have a pint in a pub in winter, bliss

[@philw4625]

More than anything! Long chilly winter walk, followed by a pint of bitter in the snug.......

[@richydowner7183]

I love you

[@nickshale6926]

I once followed a Grit Truck called ‘Spready Mercury’

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂 Incredible

[@nickshale6926]

@@AdventuresAndNaps apparently there’s a ‘David Ploughy’ out there too.

[@voodooacidman]

there is a Phillip Snowfield too :)

[@hairyairey]

@@AdventuresAndNaps here's the site you mentioned - scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab

[@michw3755]

C'mon, you people are making these up now 😂

[@philipmason9537]

Because the U.K. is an island, whatever direction the wind comes from it will pick up moisture from the sea and this moist cold air does make it feel chilled to the bone.

[@arthurterrington8477]

This is generally true. If you're at downhill and downwind from a mountain range, it is possible to get dry and cool air, owing to the Foehn effect. Occasionally in late winter you will get a strong high pressure system, combined with a little strength from the sun, which will combine to let the relative humidity drop right down (this much more common in early spring though)

[@pds8475]

I remember winters in the later part of the 70s and early 80s. We used to get a lot more snow than we do now.

[@dragonmac1234]

I remember walking home from school at least knee deep in snow in the early 80's (we had some epic snowball fights), and now the schools are closed if a few flakes of snow are seen :P

[@andysimkin5200]

In the midlands in the early eighties we'd have snow drifts right up to the bedroom windows upstairs. Properly snowed-in!

[@GenialHarryGrout]

1981 (I think) was a cracker but 1963 and 1947, one of which I don't remember and one I wasn't born, were proper pile up the snow winters

[@lewilewis3944]

I was on Tyneside in the 78/79 winter. It was a bastard even for us. But at the same time the schools and power workers were on strike. We had a two month holiday in deep snow/ice. One of the old pit slag heaps became an ace sledging hill. And evenings all huddled in one room with candles and camping stoves wrapped up in blankets with a mug of Oxo. Probably one of the greatest times in my life as a young kid. Global warming is becoming a bit of an arsehole. The youngsters will never experience this.

[@pds8475]

@@GenialHarryGrout I was only born in 75 so 81 sounds right to when I would start remembering the winters. I couldn't remember exactly when it was but knew it was somewhere between 1978 and 82. Just to make more sense my mother went into hospital December 83 and died January 84. I remember my mother during that winter of heavy snow so knew it had to be at the latest 82

[@andywest6027]

Ten minutes talking about the weather and drinking tea... That's it, you've passed your British citizenship!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

If only it was that cheap 😂

[@andrewpinks4925]

@@AdventuresAndNaps that’s the test that really matters!!

[@davetdowell]

@@AdventuresAndNaps As much as I'm in favour of you becoming one of us formally, it might be worth hanging on. There's a movement called CANZUK, which is looking to create a freedom of movement/trade deal between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, and it appears to be gaining political support in all of those countries. So we might be getting the gang back together, and you might not need to be a citizen to live here freely.

[@mrgedits4478]

@@davetdowell sweet! I'm from New Zealand and I wouldn't mind living in the UK for a bit.

[@davetdowell]

@@mrgedits4478 They're on about this CANZUK thing doing exactly that. Making it easier for you to come here and live in our rather grey and cold and rainy (at the moment) country.

[@alanh1169]

I worked with an American who said the same thing that the cold is different here.

[@pollyanne234]

Our cold is colder

[@annalieff-saxby568]

Our cold is wetter.

[@dougall1687]

Commenting from Michigan here - the snow in the UK is for sure nowhere near as bad in MI/Ontario. But the ice can almost be worse. The steady light drizzle that England gets so often, when falling on frozen roads and sidewalks ... spin city!

[@michaelstamper5875]

Mmhmm. My friends and I call it "involuntary break dancing " when people try to walk on it lol.

[@andykenny5674]

My cat Claude survives the winter by sleeping through most of it. Actually, he survives the other seasons in much the same way as well.

[@caw25sha]

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Claude is 100% correct

[@LiamE69]

Fun fact, London is north of all but one of the Canadian provinces capital cities.

[@Supersmooth007]

London shares the Same Latitude as winnipeg - but London has the Atlantic ocean and blessed by the Gulf stream which gives us milder winters - a bit annoying because like Vancouver we can get endless days of wind and rain or overcast skies and low cloud with drizzle with 10c by day and 6c by night! YUCK. At least we have some snow to look forward to this week (finally). I prefer the canadian Drier cold.

[@LiamE69]

@@Supersmooth007 London is well north of Winnipeg. If London and Winnipeg were on the same longitude Winnipeg would be in the English Channel, just off the coast of Le Havre.

[@Supersmooth007]

@@LiamE69Correct - It's actually the same latitude as Calgary (roughly( which has an average temperature of -6c in the February (despite it's chinook winds) and London also has a similar latitude to Irkutsk in S. Siberia which has an average February temperature of -15c. Just shows how being close to a large Ocean can modify any heat and or extreme cold weather.

[@LiamE69]

@@Supersmooth007 It's north of Calgary too.

[@Supersmooth007]

@@LiamE69 Exactly it is north hence why I said roughly! More around the Red Deer latitude. It's rare to get any city that shares exact same latitude with another city - i.e New York shares the same Latitude as Madrid but not exactly. :)

[@imstuman]

Ice is more of an issue here, so shoes with a good grip are a must.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Canada : You get frost bite UK : You get trench foot

[@dougie8747]

I think we've just collectively decided that snow days are public holidays and everyone goes along with the lie that we can't do anything about it.

[@nat3007]

It snows so rarely might as well make the most of it.

[@alixmeek8478]

My friend's FINNISH Mum said the same thing about the cold in Britain. But then she was also appalled that we had self-raising flour here so...

[@geminil2415]

Appalled at SR flour! WHATEVER FOR?

[@alixmeek8478]

@@geminil2415 I really don't know!!

[@PsychHacks]

Between the long nights, the drizzle, rain, fog and occasional snow, there can be quite a number of days when you wonder if it's going to get light out at all.

[@howardkey1639]

My top tips for a UK winter are a bowl of hot porridge for breakfast, plenty of hot drinks during the day and have 2 duvets on the bed at night. 🙂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Great tips!

[@jimcounter4945]

5 years but you have finally come round to tea you will soon be offering it to your guests as soon as they arrive 🍵

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Might be awhile before having guests again 😭

[@jimcounter4945]

Very true but hopefully not too far in the future

[@JPW02]

Snow usually depends on your geographical location in England. In the south, or the south east like you, and me (London) it’s not that common, but probably does happen once or twice a year (usually January or February) But go up north it’s a lot more common; it’s even been snowing there on and off this last couple weeks.

[@mell_gif]

What's it like? Cold, rainy, windy, grey. But our pubs with open fires are 💯 👌🏼 🍻

[@andalltheangelssay212]

pubs?

[@highpath4776]

@@andalltheangelssay212 Forgotten already ? The Blue Boy used to be a nice place, its now a sort of off motorway service station. Were a couple of nice ones in appledore on Isle of Oxney.

[@andalltheangelssay212]

@@highpath4776 my comment was about the fact that under corona virus restrictions there are no pubs here in the uk. There are lots of lovely rural pubs with open fires here in Lincolnshire, the problem is they’re not open and haven’t been for soooooo long.

[@poisednoise]

The reason it’s so dark in the winter here is because of how far north we are: London’s further north than Corner Brook Nfd. It’s also why southern Ontario’s so bright: Toronto’s at the same latitude as Barcelona.

[@hughtube5154]

Thin end of the wedge. Today, she drinks tea. Tomorrow, she'll be eating Marmite.

[@dave_h_8742]

She gets dumped by me, flame deffinately out if that happens 🤣 (Joke obviously Alanna)

[@caw25sha]

Maybe in another 5 years she'll put milk in the tea.

[@anthonycollini5375]

Canadians are strange.

[@Jon1950]

The lack of daylight is the worst part for me. Get up in the dark, go to work in the dark, then after being stuck inside when it was light, you go home in the dark.

[@dave_h_8742]

I got a S.A.D. Light really does help keep the depression away.

[@carson5196]

American here. Get some vitamin d as well. In the spring/summer/fall your skin absorbs it. But in the winter all covered up that doesn't really happen. It will affect your health.

[@Greenwood4727]

I am the reverse, summer sun bothers me more, i feel more alive in the dark..

[@anthonycollini5375]

That happens in most places you idiot.

[@Crusty_Camper]

Yes Jon, we are the same latitude as Hudsons Bay. Here on the England /Scotland border it is wet, windy, dark and cold. Yuk.

[@TheSpacecraftX]

There's something cathartic about canadians also complaining about our wet penetrating cold winters. A friend of my flatmate who was here for uni was the same. Came expecting it to be a breeze and then really hated the cold. Internet Canadians like to be aloof about how we complain about our comparatively mild winters and shut things down.

[@xzhou]

I went to UK few times when I look at the forecast it seems pretty warm for a Canadian. When I actually got out, I was like why dose it feel so cold!!

[@cdeford]

It's nearly 30 years since we had a really heavy snow - 3 or 4 feet - now it's just dull and wet.

[@highpath4776]

Best from the East ? And a couple of years before that, half of london gritted and roads clear, other half, snow and ice everywhere and the buses got cancelled (Boriss had cleared off for the Christmas Hols to some foreign place)

[@cdeford]

@@highpath4776 I don't remember much about the Beast from the East apart from the name. But I remember wading through 4 foot snowdrifts in 1992. Even when it does snow it doesn't last as long as it used to (or seemed to).

[@Leonard_Smith]

Alanna, I didn't just like this video, I loved this video. England in winter is survivable, but even more so in the right company... And you are the RIGHT company.

[@jasondrury8301]

Stew and Dumplinga is another popular one here in England

[@malarkey2217]

Chicken casserole with dumplings.....mmmmm! Had that last week. 👍

[@vickytaylor9155]

Beef stew and dumplings. My favourite meal ever.

[@alanredfern2994]

When I was a boy in the 1950's we got a lot of snow in the north of England. We used make huge snowballs and roll them down the street.

[@MrMegan1962]

Damp cold in England, gets in yer bones.

[@dave_h_8742]

Gangway duty on a steel ship surrounded by icy water in winter is no joke !

[@nbclaymore1861]

I always look forward to Tuesdays now. Your videos brighten up these difficult times.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I'm so glad!

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

In Newcastle a winter coat is a long-sleeved tshirt.

[@michaelwatson4509]

True

[@sanddancer68]

Yeah many a Friday night walking back from the ranch in shields at 2.30 am jeans and shirt.?

[@dusty38uk]

I've seen lasses in boob tubes in Newcastle in the winter

[@Lizzie-ob6nx]

We do have some grit trucks but only like 1 per county if they don’t get much snow. We are elite when it comes to naming things. Kent use to get lots of snow but we don’t anymore. Sevenoaks and king hill gets snow sometimes but other parts of Kent don’t get as much snow.

[@virthanki902]

Winters, Alanna drinking tea! Didn't see that coming! See you again next Tuesday and Thanks for the video!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!

[@Mugtree]

So true about everything you said. I find between 5 and 1c the coldest especially if wet. Oddly below 0 feels a lot warmer 🤷‍♂️. And yes there is a massive lack of sun but you get used to it. I really love the winter 🥶❤️👍

[@tichburyfan]

I am drinking a hot mug of tea while watching the video - guarateed to banish the winter cold. Now you are drinking tea as well, Alanna, you get a fast track to British citiznship. Keep up the good work!!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!

[@debbielough7754]

I was going to say about surviving a UK winter, be prepared. I was doing a charity walk 10 days ago - I was only out for two hours or so, and I had mud, matted leaves, blinding sunshine, rain, heavy snow, frozen rain, drizzle, and yet more snow while I was out. Waterproof everything. Boots, hood / hat, boots.

[@andrewpinks4925]

I love how every now and then your Canadian accent drops in: oatside 😘 The wetness of our snow is also very different to the Canadian snow.

[@arthurterrington8477]

In Canada the snow is powdery, because the air is far colder. In the UK we get the thick cotton-like snow, because it tends to be near melting when it falls.

[@michaels640]

The latest I got back from work was leaving Saltaire/Bradford at 4pm and getting home at 2:45am in Holmfirth 18 miles away. But it was so beautiful! The main Holmfirth Road - a double deck bus route - the trees were hanging so low over the road they brushed the top of my car. It was like driving through a long snow tunnel/cave. I’ve never forgotten how beautiful it was...

[@gojohnniegogo]

The assimilation is almost complete! It's been nice to have snow this year in December & early January. Especially when I don't have to be out in it!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Snow is beautiful to look at, as long as you're indoors! 😂

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

Talking of snow , my daughter in law is originally from Denver Colorado. One recent Christmas I was spending the day with her and my son. Her phone made a face time kind of sound and it was her parents calling for a Christmas chat. It had actually been snowing recently and there was a tiny bit of it left in the garden. I said to my co parent ( thats how we describe ourselves) “ Look , a white Christmas ! ” Mom went and opened her front door and revealed a wall of snow from the floor to the top of the door and beyond “Look “ she said “ A white Christmas ! ”

[@mayloo2137]

I am with her on the coat. I'm in Calgary, Canada, and I always buy a coat with a hood. The snow situation sounds like Vancouver BC where they go a bit crazy when it does snow.

[@davidcramb5793]

If we get more than 5mm of snow, everything grinds to a standstill.

[@laurabogar3956]

I'm from Niagara Falls Canada. We are surrounded on three sides by the Great Lakes, so most of the winters are cold and wet. It's not unusual to find yourself pushing snow, up to your hips, as your walking down the middle of the street on your way to work. The only way most things shut down is if the buses get stuck trying to drive through it and with 40' of power it takes a lot. I'm really enjoying your videos. It's my dream to move to the UK eventually and it's great to hear what it is like from another Canadian's perspective. Stay safe, stay warm, and stay hopeful. True North.

[@alanmills9492]

Alanna, you like tea ! Er, I'm not getting emotional, I think there's something in my eye !

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@gigteevee6118]

So glad you're getting into tea, as you also love home made mulled wine you're gonna love this recipe from Pakistan, it's like tea and mulled wine had a child. Sulaimani Tea Recipe Serves: 2 Ingredients: 600ml Water 2 Tsp Grated Fresh Ginger 2 Cinnamon Sticks 6 Cardamom Pods 2 Star Anise 4 Cloves 1 Tsp Tea Leaves (or the contents of a tea bag) 2 Tsp Jaggery Goor (Brown Sugar can be used) 1 Tbs Freshly squeezed Lemon Juice Method: Bring water to a boil. Add all ingredients except Tea and Jaggery Goor. Simmer the spices in water for 3mins. Add tea and boil for 2 more mins. Add in jaggery and mix well. Add lemon juice and strain into a jug. Serve piping hot.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Very cool!!

[@stevieduggan1763]

Lamb or beef stew and dumplings. Hot mug of Bovril.

[@davidcramb5793]

Bovril with white pepper. Nothing like it on a cold, wet Winter morning 😋

[@stevieduggan1763]

@@davidcramb5793 Defo gonna try this, mate. 🤔

[@neilbuckley1613]

Agree on Beef stew with dumplings, also Potato Hash [Tater 'Ash] a beef stew filled with thin sliced potatoes. Nobody mentioned warming puddings like syrup sponge, rice pudding and treacle tart and custard.

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

@@davidcramb5793 I like a cup of oxo with black pepper but a jar of bovril will be on my next shopping list, I've already got the white pepper.

[@janinebedfordl]

They have "all that sort of stuff" in Scotland. I was staying there one January when the snow came down all over the UK. My kids in southeast England were snowed in (everything stopped as you noted it does) meanwhile in Aviemore fleets of snowploughs and gritters appeared from nowhere and made everything good again

[@richiegrey5377]

Red Rose USA Tea We are happy u cover up 5"1 your frame!!!!

[@AaronTheHipHopGuy]

Looking forward to your vid helped me get through my classes today! Your videos are always so funny and they give me something to look forward to! I really appreciate you making them!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much!!!!!!

[@jejepalmer]

this is so interesting to me! i always wondered why 2 degrees felt so much colder in the uk compared to toronto!!

[@Greenwood4727]

the dampness in the air just leeches heat.. it sucks the heat right out of you,

[@TheHesK9]

Also I've found when it gets over 30°C it feels hotter here. I was in florida the other year in July and it felt comfortable at 35°C. Came back to England and we had a day at 38°C and that just felt like another level. I don't know why

[@Greenwood4727]

@@TheHesK9 used to live in texas for a while and that heat was on another level, but coming back to the uk weather was cooler but it killed me

[@jejepalmer]

@@TheHesK9 definitely! it seems almost radioactive here :(

[@stevetheduck1425]

Snow down here in the South-East of England is rare, - and odd: last serious snow I recall was 2005. End of March, sudden four or five inches everything stopped, the first day of April it melted and turned to steam, with dry roads in a couple of hours, and fog everywhere. It was like we gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn!

[@mickwful]

You should have given the post people a mention who wear there shorts through out the winter.

[@greghilton7797]

They don't have a central nervous system.

[@caw25sha]

I have a theory that nobody in the depot wants to be the first to start wearing trousers so they all end up wearing them right through winter.

[@jamesknightreading]

@@caw25sha I asked the postman about this. He said it's due to it being so unpleasant being in wet trousers for hours. Bare legs dry after a bit.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

I live in East Anglia. In the 21/22 winter we had no snow at all, and it almost never went below zero C. The grass stays green and you can go out in a raincoat or a fleece. This is fine with me.

[@gerrymcnicholas7906]

Granny Gritter cracked me up! thanks for another interesting video

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@highpath4776]

Any called Up The Gritter ?

[@kevinjones4559]

If you get an easterly wind Kent can get plastered with deep snow as a Thames Streamer sets up continuous snow which is like lake effect snow on the Great Lakes shoreline.

[@davewebster6945]

I remember the days when we coped superbly with heavy snow fall every winter back in the 1950's and 60s. I was born in Liverpool and then we moved down south to Berkshire in the mid sixties and still we had snow and everyone coped with it same way as they do in Canada, US, Europe etc. Then global warming started and that was the end of our ability to cope or fund redundant stockpiles of road salt, gritters and snow ploughs 😑. That is why we are up the creek big time when we get an inch of snow. I like snow, at least it puts a bit of colour into the landscape to brighten up the days 👍🏽. Grey dull dark wintery days with miserable drizzly rain that can last a month or so is so depressing 😖 not good when coupled with the covid and lockdowns and closures 😑. But on the bright side snow drops are now flowering and crocusses are growing and the trees have buds on them 🌸🌻🌱🌳 😃, spring is on its way, the days are getting longer 🤗 now there is something to look forward too 😊. Im sure if they stopped with the clocks back, clocks forward malarky twice a year the transition between summer and winter would be much easier to cope with 🤔. Enjoy your tea Alanna 🍵😋👍🏽.

[@pierodavies9508]

Yes, you are right. The train from London to Bangor I used to catch for Christmas with my Grandparents, used to take an eternity as it crawled along. Snow all the way, bathed in an orange glow from the street lamps. And tobogganing in the fields above Menai Straits. Standing in snow up to the top of my Wellies waiting for the bus to school (Welwyn Garden City) All a distant (and pleasant) memory now, as apart from climate change, I live on the East coast of Australia.

[@markhackett2302]

Well GW made it worse, but it was government cutbacks on councils (as a political tool: Thatcher would remove funding from Labour councils so that they had to raise council taxes and get complained at the higher costs yet fewer services), and the take over of the civil service class with accountants, so that the expense is seen but not the utility of "wasting" that money on preparedness.

[@markhackett2302]

Thing is they keep complaining. Know why? Trading on the stock market. Each change produces a sliver where they cannot be absolutely sure they are making money with high frequency trading. And why don't they just change the opening hours rather than make the clocks lie? Because YOU have to change YOUR clock to obey THEIR time for work, whereas doing it sensibly makes the businesses have to change their opening times. Though it would be a lot less work and effort, and even allow region to ignore the state mandate (Scotland isn't helped with DST in the least), it would be the effort of the business, not the peons who are there to get peon'd.

[@shearerslegs]

I’m strangely glad you’re drinking tea now. I hope you and your family stay safe and well, thank you for the video

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you! You too!

[@dominikr8165]

No coats required in Yorkshire.

[@richardsutcliffe6994]

Tee shirts only in Newcastle.

[@raymondporter2094]

Shorts to be worn at all times of the year! And: " Most of the winter warming foods in the UK are full of carbs, hence my shape...!' LOL (I think that's what the youth of today say at these times). The carbs are clearly doing you NO harm.

[@superted6960]

Pronounced "coits", not to be confused with the game

[@sas949]

We say ‘it’s a coit colder in Yorkshire compared to down South’ but you can see adults and children without a coat even at 1 or 2 degrees C. You can see high school girls in a morning wearing mini skirts and blouses on their way to school !

[@kittyhawk7031]

Apart from me because I'm a soft bitch, I even feel cold in the summer.

[@lmiddle6773]

Spring is next, a walk through some nearby bluebell woods is a sight to behold around April may time

[@foodmonkeydairies4433]

Mate! It was like somebody turned the sun off in Kent this morning and it’s not got much better during the day. You forgot the wind that will murder your umbrella 🤣😘

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

It's been so dark today!

[@michw3755]

@@AdventuresAndNaps you should've come up to Yorkshire, sunny all day, gone now though but still light which is unusual for 4.15

[@dave_h_8742]

@@michw3755 lockdown she's going nowhere !

[@thebigeasy87]

@@michw3755 Hands off Yorkie! Kent has officially adopted her as one of our own.

[@kevinparkes417]

I remember being in Sweden one winter and being amazed at how quickly they dealt with snow and then got on with life. In the UK life just grinds to a halt and we spend the next week moaning about it... and drinking tea!!

[@rowesk]

Thank you Laura Petites 🙌 🔥

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

🎉🎉

[@raymondcragg7282]

You are right, the UK does feel colder than it is. When I worked up at Fort McMurray it went down to -20C but didn't feel that cold

[@Alcogod]

Sometimes it's so cold in the UK that people in the North might...MIGHT, put their big coats on over their T-shirts.

[@hairyairey]

Only when southerners are told not to travel unless absolutely essential!

[@Greenwood4727]

am sitting here in a tshirt and shorts

[@arthurterrington8477]

The cold feels different in the UK, because of relative humidity. In Canada or USA the cold stings more, because RH tends to be lower; moisture on your skin evaporates quicker, giving the stinging effect (like putting some alcoholic on your skin). The RH is higher here, so the moisture stays on your skin and the cold air chills it.

[@Jamie_Smith.]

British winters, the rain is cold British summers, the rain gets warmer!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@stevetheduck1425]

Was lucky enough to be in Japan during October: warm typhoon rain and gusty winds; odd, but familiar...

[@stevealharris6669]

Unless your in East Anglia - the driest part of the UK

[@jimfiggerty833]

What a lovely lass . I use daylight spectrum lightbulbs in the house and I'm convinced we're not as miserable as we usually are in winter.

[@marksnellingphotography]

She's officially British, she's on the tea...I feel a different brands of tea video incoming 👍

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Maybe!

[@jillhobson6128]

@@AdventuresAndNaps Don't touch tea, it's horrible. I'm English

[@jamesdoran4560]

@@jillhobson6128 no you're not!

[@jillhobson6128]

@@jamesdoran4560 Oh yes I am!

[@jamesdoran4560]

@@jillhobson6128 Hairs on yer chest? Ah, thought not!

[@Mark-he3tl]

I think that was a pretty good description of our winters to be honest. I've worked with Canadians a fair bit in my career, but one meeting stands out. The team in Canada on the phone apologised for the late start to the meeting and that fact that one of guys was running a little late - "we had 4 feet of snow last night so its taking him a bit longer to cycle in" kind of sums up[ the difference! ;) Also a few other comfort food dishes - Mince & suet dumplings, Toad in the hole, a really good beef stew/pie, basically anything with gravy is good. :)

[@Malfie657]

Interesting to hear that you still think its cold here although in a different way, but it's typical that we've not had a single flake of snow in Surrey so far this winter - sod's law given that I don't have to go far thanks to covid. Maybe a new career in modelling winter coats beckons for you😀

[@dave_h_8742]

She did a very good impression of a professional coat model

[@Malfie657]

@@dave_h_8742 I thought so too.

[@petervenkman69]

Having lived in both Canada and the UK, I will still take the UK every time... I lived in Very rural Quebec, Toronto and Winnipeg... so I have experienced several variations of Canadian winter.... yes the damp cold is different, but at least I can ride my motorcycle year round. You are not wrong about how even a light dusting of snow causes issues... I remember teaching a bus driver how to drive in the snow.

[@ivylovesrunning]

You're one of us Brits now you've started drinking tea. 😄

[@ruthking7884]

Depends where in Canada you lived. There is a lot of dampness in the cold in places. Lots of moisture by the coasts and great lakes.

[@sebv1086]

This is not the first time I've heard a Canadian being surprised how bone chillingly cold a maritime climate's winter is. It's a nasty cold.

[@docostler]

Just FYI Canada has the longest marine coastline in the world. Like more than half the entire coastline of the world.

[@bwillan]

That Canadian, must live in an area of Canada where there isn't much in the way of humidity. In southern Ontario being surrounded by 3 great lakes, it is humid here and the winters are bone chilling cold. It may only be -10C but with a wind and humidity, that feels vastly colder than -25C in a more Northern drier area of Canada.

[@sebv1086]

@@docostler. You probably should look up what a maritime (or oceanic) climate actually is before doing a "FYI" post. Derp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_climate

[@docostler]

@@sebv1086 Rather than Wikipedia I just look out my 'effin window. Perhaps you think west ends at Ireland and Wales. Kind of stupid when your own reference source shows Vancouver Canada as an example of maritime climate. Prick.

[@cathygillies7271]

@@bwillan Nova Scotia has a wet maritime climate. Rain one day and snow the next or both in one day. Go west or north -- I've experienced winter in the Yukon and although very cold with snow -- lots more sun. Yes, the damp at 1 degree feels colder especially with wind!

[@bryansmith1920]

Thank you for the mention of our Northern Europe weather affecting moods But then watching your post always brings a tingle to my cheeks And I'm happy again

[@rnp497]

Rain in England during the winter, less we forget the Spring, Summer and Autumn rains they don't like to be left out!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@colsand]

It's warmer in the summer though.

[@stephenhitchen8753]

Worked on cardiff docks years ago, with the sea air, I've never been so cold as you say chilled through to the bone that even a bath would not warm me up.

[@highpath4776]

Got snowed in in Cardiff ( Cathays) in 1982 ! Four days walking knee deep in snow to the butchers for sausages (the only shop open that had a few stocks in - the main roads got cleared but the side streets got forgotten)

[@blindarchershaunhenderson3769]

Haha you're drinking tea there's no going back now

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

its wet a lot, sometimes snow, also windy plus you don't see the sun for 3 months. there are snowploughs here but its a device that goes on the front of a tractor(farm), there was a really big Canadian snowplough in a hanger near where I used to live, left over when the Canadian air force had a temporary base at an aerodrome after the end of the 2nd world war, apparently it was too big to ship back to Canada.

[@kjdempsey]

How to survive winter in England... plenty of comfort food 😊

[@me-in-Australia]

Firstly, I am not making this up, a couple of days ago, I live in Melbourne, and I spoke to some who just got back from holiday in Queensland, the commented about how cold its is..... 18C, yes that was the temperature here. As an English person, I so agree about the winter blues in the UK

[@gillianrimmer7733]

First time I visited my son and his Australian wife in Sydney, it was their 'winter'. My daughter-in-law told me to pack plenty of warm clothes as they had booked a few nights away in the Blue Mountains - "It gets really cold there". I honestly laughed at the 13° 'cold' when we got there - All the photos show me in the same 3 tee-shirts because it was way too warm for any of the mountains of warm clothes I'd packed.

[@luvmusicutb]

5 years to get used to tea I’ve lived here my whole life still don’t like it. Full English breakfast 😋😋😋😋

[@janejohnstone5795]

In UK...the winter is a damp...coldness...Jan...until April..

[@dandelionmel]

Carbs, layers, hot drinks, hibernation, and more carbs 😂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Basically! 😂

[@dandelionmel]

I’d be sectioned without my sad lamp lol

[@dave_h_8742]

@@dandelionmel S.A.D. Light keeps me sane 🙂

[@matc6221]

You make our dark gloomy Tuesdays light and fun, oh yeah 😁.

[@grantparman4705]

Winters are always tough for me, and part of it is that I think I have undiagnosed seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Fortunately, my Canadian KZbin therapist has been an effective weekly treatment for my symptoms.

[@highpath4776]

I have been watching some of the Canadian workers YT channels so its been interesting over christmas and new year seeing that.

[@jcasillas78]

Charity shops are my tip. Coming from a desert climate I didn't have any rain gear. I picked up a good waterproof jacket for 5 pounds, probably saved my life. That and lots of spicy Jamaican pasties got me through a winter in Sheffield!

[@paulleach4013]

Do you realise that you've just spent nearly 15 minutes talking about the weather and now you've started drinking tea (Yorkshire I hope) were slowly turning her. . . .

[@chrisduncan7257]

:) its a gradual process... I think we have nearly finished this one

[@mike04535]

Yorkshire tea? I wouldn't insult my teapot with that winkle piss.

[@delithnutkins6017]

Always love your quirky up beat comments. You always cheer me up . Pleased to hear your drinking tea now you’re now a proper Brit. Keep up the Vlogs we love them xxx

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much!!

[@angelique_cs]

I live in a "Goldilocks" part of CA, thus I have no practice gearing up for actual winter weather. I accept that this is a character flaw. Thanks for the helpful tips!

[@Mrs.J87]

Gotta love BC 😏

[@chanchito4401]

Great description of the different kinds of cold at the beginning I could feel it

[@ianmerricks4818]

Cold, dark but perfectly do-able... Sounds like my ex wife.

[@zoieexo]

Stop it 😂

[@Theinternalrewrite]

Biggin Hill is a bit higher than the areas around so gets one degree colder. Sometimes the surrounding places get rain but Biggin Hill gets snow and you can't get through.

[@paulhorton5612]

All of these comments are very accurate. The light is thin in winter and if it's raining it feels like it hardly gets light at all, but it makes you appreciate the endless July summer evenings when it doesn't get dark until 10 or even 11pm. I met some US veterans in the 90s who came from Minnesota where it can be 40 below in winter. They were stationed in England during WW2 and they all remembered the British cold which really does get into your bones. Time for pints by the fire.

[@sjp1861]

Geez, Alana. You are just so genuine and sweet. It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos. Keep it up and good luck with your business!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much!!

[@paulgrimshaw6301]

Just to add, if you're out walking in the countryside in winter then you need really good waterproof walker's boots and ideally gaiters. The paths can get very muddy over winter, with mud baths around many gates and stiles.

[@nat3007]

Or a good pair of wellies. The mud is impressive at the moment.

[@simonpowell2559]

Don't you just love her. Great description of English winter. I lived in Japan, deep snow, very cold but nothing like an English winter.

[@Lee-70ish]

Good idea to wrap up warm . In the 60s i was in junior school. short trousers were the school uniform until you went to senior school. My mum would send me to school with thick gloves, duffle coat and balaclava but still in short trousers. My knees and legs were blue. Look up the UK winter 1963. It snowed a tad .

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Oh wow!

[@Bonehead777]

Having lived in Canada for 3 years, And now back in uk, I can confirm that uk cold snaps are at least as bone chillingly cold, despite Canada being at least 15 degrees colder. Canada def has the edge in stinging cold, but not in the out and out brrr factor. Its the damp winters here that do it. I grew up in Aberdeen in the 1970s and it actually got to -17 one year. In the uk that is flipping cold. 😬

[@ulysses2138]

It’s a new phenomenon closing down for a couple of inches of snow, in the late 70s and early 80s we had some really bad winters and I rode a motorcycle to work in fairly thick snow and ice, if we didn’t turn up we risked not being paid or dismissal and sometimes the snow was drifting up to 6 or more feet.

[@highpath4776]

Winter in England. 2in of snow, for three days. ( yes it can be exceptionally more than that). Worse bit is the biting frost around your feet - double socks needed. Easterly Winds from the Russian Urals can be a problem.