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[ellarien]

The weather -- with apologies to the rest of the country -- is beautiful here at the moment, with clear blue skies and temperatures rising to the 70s. Tomorrow I leave for a week in the northern half of England, where the temperatures will barely rise above freezing the whole time. I'm not sure I even have clothes for those conditions any more. One long but not particularly heavy wool-blend coat; a few moth-eaten lambswool turtlenecks and a variety of mainly cotton or acrylic sweaters and fleece tops; a few very old pairs of heavy tights; some moderately thick twill jeans suitable for Tucson winters or English summers; a pair of leather ankle boots slightly too large for me. I'm fairly sure there's a pair of gloves around here somewhere.

At least I used to live in places that had some kind of winter. A local colleague attending the same meeting is originally from Tenerife, where it's pretty much in the 70s all year round.