I notice that at 10:30 AM today in Portland Oregon it is 22.5 F! That seems a bit cold for this time of year.
The weather report currently on the BBC is telling me that it is 10 C (48 F) here in London at 6:30 PM. I already knew it was "warm" because I walked home from the grocery store, (about a kilometer) and noticed I was very warm in my coat and hat.
As I neared my flat I realized this was an opportunity for me to drop my coat off at the dry cleaners. This coat is one I bought here in London 2-3 months ago. It is a wool pea coat in a bright yellow with black trim.
The vast majority of Londoners wear black coats - well really black everything- during the winter. It seems so dreary and morbid - but maybe I feel that way because I have taught for so long and liked to brighten up the classroom during the darker months to keep spirits up and minds engaged.
What I didn't realize when I bought this coat is that yellow is a hard colour to keep clean! Particularly when I pick up a morning paper each day on my way to the tube to school and walk with it under my arm. All that newsprint rubbing off on my coat! Plus just the normal encounters with dirt here and there - it really shows on yellow.
So the coat is now at the cleaners and I will see how it looks when I pick it up on Wednesday.
I have a purple REI outdoors coat but it doesn't have the class needed for my daily trek to work. I also bought a lovely boiled wool coat at the yarn show in October but had stopped wearing as I thought it was getting too cold. Looks like it is warm enough to wear it since we are predicted to have sunny days with the temperatures in the 50's the rest of the week.
Global warming? We may never know!
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