Foah? Are you German?
“I´m interested in learning whether there might snow drop down”
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So as well I was!
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I threw the lady from the train - a kiss!
Just messin - remember you are what you is!
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Thank you Mixmixi, glad to meet you here too. -)
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Good morning to all thread readers. This morning it was -12C, and after three hours it is still -12C.
Luckily the wind has abated, but it is body-numbingly cold, and all of the streets are deserted.
People are still able to drive to the local shops and supermarkets, but I was in Edeka at eight o’clock and I was the only customer! Maybe they were all there yesterday. LOL.
My three dogs were in the garden at six o’clock, but we now HAVE to go for their morning walk. We don’t really want to, but they HAVE to.
See you later.
Kitos.
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Hello Kitos . treat with cold weather like a kind of sport, you will love it.
Thank you.
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Hello Michael and all,
I think the cold in your place is different to the cold in Hanoi. It is easier to feel it than to explain it. However, I will try to tell you it.
Although the temperature in the north of Vietnam never goes down to minus degree, it is still very cold sometimes. Monsoon, wet and gentle rain makes a typical cold of Hanoi winter. We often use the words “chilled”, “benumbed”, “a piercing cold”, “very cold”, and frozen to the bone" to describe this kind of cold. On the cold days, it is colder to the people, who ride the motorcycles than who drive cars and who walk on foot. While the others were feeling warm inside the car and feeling warm because of their walking, the people, who ride the motorcycle, had to cope with the wind, the cold, and the rain. I have read an article about some people, who were afraid of the cold so they called taxis when they had works outdoor. Of course this had caused more traffic jams.
Since last week, it has been very cold in Hanoi. It had been cloudy and rained gently sometimes. Yesterday, my daughter wore two pairs of socks, but she still complained very cold. After I had taken my children to school, I passed the market to buy some foods. Most of the people, who were in the market, said “very cold today”. Then I stayed in door, read some papers and studied English at my desk. In fact I wanted to go to the book store in the center, but I changed my idea because of the cold outside. When I was searching the topics in the Forum, I found your discussion “It’s so cold.” I posted a message “If you are numb with cold there I am frozen to the bone here.” in the Forum because I felt the same feeling at that time.
Today it is warmer than yesterday. It was sunny in the late morning and it made most of the people comfortable. When I was at my work in the morning, the people whom I met looked more fresh and happy.
It was nice that you have made a question about the cold in the winter, in Hanoi, Vietnam. So I had a chance to tell you it. Thank you, Michael!
Have a nice day!
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you have to take it easy and injoy from your life such a good winner
Oh dear, Jamie. Good you mentioned that… and I once was blamed here to sound quite German. Yes I can´t gainsay it. Nonetheless, even to a native Germlish user it looks quite circular. lol
I wonder what she would have said if you had tossed the kiss towards her…haha
Anyway, another nice example of Germlish seems “stoolwent”. I once read it anywhere
Michael
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Hello Michael,
you really shouldn’t have learned English from Otto Waalkes! His “English for Runaways” were the worst ESL lessons ever! You are aware, though, that Otto is only a comedian?! 
Claudia
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Well, people, what I can tell you, living in Syberia, where it’s generally not very hot in winter, but this season it’s something very specific. Usually winter temperature is around -10, but this time it’s -32. Kids don’t go to school and, probably, they are the only people feeling happy and grateful to such natural abnormalities. There are much less cars in the streets, I should admit, no traffic jams (at least smt positive). Frankly, I don’t feel cold, as I am always indoors or in the car, but getting tired of too much clothes and imposibility to walk.
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Hello Claudia,
lol, ok, you can´t disenchant me. Just google the mentioned word “st…nt” and you actually will find one serious entry there. Even it is written with two words. ha
But ooops, we left the topic´s theme.
Michael
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Hi Bill,
When I was reading your message, I recalled to the time I have been to Sweden. It was similar to what you have narrated in your messages. I have seen some people who took their dogs to walk on the streets, and most of the streets were deserted, during the cold days, too.
This morning I tried to look for the word to describe the monsoon in the north of Vietnam, but I did not. And I have just found it in your message “it is body-numbling cold”. In Vietnam, we often use this phrase to say about the monsoon and the very cold in the winter, in the North.
Have a nice day!
P.S. Bill, please correct my writings, whenever you see the mistakes. I am looking forward to receiving corrections and comments from you. Without your help, I do not know what I should practice to improve my English. Thank you!
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Hi all,
As you may never noticed (LOL) I was fully absent today, but now here in my country I feel the same as Kitos did, it’s really cold even in my house! man I am freezing! I think it might be minus 5 or 6 out there.
Mixmixi
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Hoado, I have sent you a PM. Please read and reply.
Bill.
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Must be love Michael
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Bill, thank you so much! I have sent you PMs. Please read it.
Have a nice day!
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Good morning all. What do you know… it’s +2C today! Who knows, we may even reach +3C with a little luck,
This week we have aborted our usual 6 a.m. romps until daylight was well established.
How drab the trees now look, bare of all foliage, and with only a meagre covering of snow. Nothing like Monday and Tuesday when they appeared to have a dreamlike quality.
Anyway, time to don “the gear” and go for “walkies”. See you all later.
Kitos.
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Hello James,
sorry, but I don´t understand what you mean. Albeit LOVE (in all of its kinds) is supposedly the best emotion one ever can feel, it´s sometimes a bit ambiguous…
Puzzled Michael
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OK, it isn’t Spring, but +2C certainly feels a lot better than -12C. It was “mild” enough to make it a leisurely stroll in comparison to yesterday and Tuesday.
I took the opportunity to jot down the locations of another four birds nests which I hadn’t noticed earlier in the year.
My rummaging about in the bushes revealed two blackbird’s nests, and two song thrushes nests, so it was a very worthwhile rummage.
I might find something later today on our second walk.
Bye for now.
Kitos.
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Boris here is thinking WTF am I doing in Belfast Zoo?
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Good morning sleepy-heads.
I awakened at 5 a.m. this morning to a bedroom that had an eerie ghost-like quality.
I knew immediately what that was indicating!
On opening the curtains I was not surprised to be greeted to yet another overnight phenomenon. Snow, snow, and even more snow.
We were on the trail very early, Violetta and myself, for the snow was far too deep for the other two small dogs. They had to content themselves with a few minutes in the garden.
It was a fantastic panorama that lay spread out before us, and taking one of the lesser used trails, it was like being the only two living things on earth.
The bows of the trees, once again sagging under the weight of snow that had enveloped them during several hours of snowfall, looked awesome.
The calm and silence was overpowering. You could almost hear the silence!
Although our prints in the snow were large, the smaller prints of small birds and rabbits were evident. How desperate they must be to find food in these conditions.
I stood entranced and looked all around me.
Oh, to be a painter at this moment.
How the brushes would fly across the canvas!
Almost, but not quite, capturing the beauty of this moment!
It is so good to be alive and mobile at moments like these.
Kitos.
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