Weather and clothes

The difference between going outside wearing long johns underneath your jeans and not wearing long johns underneath your jeans is 'infernally brutally macabre'. Or so I'm told.

So do wear them when it's snowy and cold outside.

Skåne in snow

Skåne is still covered in snow, it's been almost a week now. It may seem like a little thing for those of you living in other climate zones but we haven't had this much snow in.... I don't know, but it's beautiful!

Buses don't run, cars slide off roads if the driver is not overcareful, it's cold and snow silent and the nights are as bright as they should be in wintertime.

The Return of the Summer

Only a few days ago the August moon was at its fullest, it was white and bright and lit up the night. It sailed high in the sky, cold and distant. Not much like the huge, near, yellow August moon we picture in our minds when here in Sweden we are talking about the August moon (we actually do just that, with a romantic sigh to set the proper mood).

I wonder if perhaps we shall expect that face of the moon, the one who says goodbuy to Summer and greets Autumn welcome, in September from now on? Weather seems to indicate that, is hot and sunny and dry, just the kind of weather you wish for when it's time to harvest the hay.

Do we have longer summers than we used to have or is it just an old womans failing memory that gives me that idea?

Sunset

We've had a long stretch of clammy hot days, not a cloud in the sky and hardly any air to breath. Then, finally, the clouds that have been hovering over other parts of Europe came to visit us too. Last night gave us this beautiful, silvery sunset


followed by a magnificent thunderstorm and then a full moon lit up the rest of the night.

Today the sun is back, but the clouds are still in the sky shading us at times and keeping the temperature down. Clouds are nice.

A clear mind in the night

I have always functioned better in the night than I do in the day. I'm nicer, I think better, I communicate better, I learn better, I teach better, I do everything better in the wee hours, when the world's asleep. During the years I have thought of many reasons for this: nights are calmer, phones are quiet, neighbours sleep, those few of us awake have time to finish our streams of thoughts and conversations since nobody else claims our attention. Darkness is peaceful and undemanding, unlike daylight that keeps nagging you for action and energy.

Now I am informed that there is one more reason: cold air, it seems, contains more oxygen per cubic measure than warm. Thus, every breath we take during the night contains more oxygen than the breaths we take during the day.

So there's a biological explanation to why I function better at night as well. Who knew?

Too hot

It's too hot to think straight, let alone write something worth reading.