It's cold! And it's meant to get colder?!

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*****Pointless moan*****
After all our snow and everything I was expecting the weather to pick up slightly and to be fair it did for a few days, but now it's freezing again! I looked at the weather and its going to get colder?! :eek:

Anyone have any tips to keep warm? I'm so cold all the time! :rolleyes:

On a more positive note - It's Friday! :D
 
I feel the cold badly and am sat in my heated house with joggers under combats and 3 tops, just looking at the grey skies makes me shiver. Much preferred to none stop rain though! Ponios are happy out.

We have the option of 24/7 turnout soon, plenty of grass but if it doesnt get warmer for new grass to grow it won't be nutritionally sound will it? may have to stay in at night for a while longer. Boooo
 
^^^^ as shys mum says its that wind that goes straight through you no matter what you wear!
I think its worse as we had a nice weekend so now feels even colder!
Plenty of thin layers i think works best. Also keep your head warm to prevent heat loss. I find if i have a hat on i can wear much fewer layers so not look like Michelin man.
Also put gloves on at home when your hands are already warm.
 
My pony's having to wear two exercise sheets when ridden otherwise he shivers... I wouldn't mind, but he's meant to be a hardy highland :eek:

I'm going to be wearing so many layers at trec on Sunday I won't fit under the low branches :eek:
 
I prefer cold and clear to mild and pi$$ing it down!!! So ill take the cold clear as I can get riding :) once I'm moving I don't feel the cold so mucking out before riding normally has me toasty :D
 
Well they forecast freezing point with wind chill of -3 to -5 for us in the Chilterns but make that -5 for definate - this morning stuff was frozen hard here and it's been perishing for my guys as the only work for today was outdoor painting! Lovely green colour though!

I've not seen 5lts of gloss go on so quick for quite a while - nicely dry now too. Even working that fast is not that warming just painting so I sent them home at lunchtime today.
 
But its DRYYYYYYYYYY! :D:D:D

Both our schools are finally puddle free, after 4 months. Admittedly, they are now a wee bit frozen as well ;)

The only way I've managed to stay alive is layers, and then a nice fleecey onesie over the top :rolleyes:
 
Wrap up warmly. Keep ears and head covered up, and wear ski pants, they don't look so great but you'll be lovely and warm.

Cold is relative, yesterday it was -22C here, today I am boiling at -7C and that's right now at lunchtime. If you are used to 10C then -5 is cold, especially if you factor in the windchill which will make it seem worse.
 
I am loving the dry but we haven't been above -1c all day and it's dropping quickly now.

I couldn't ride today as too many patches of ice over the lanes to take the risk.

The horses are now living out so had fun double rugging them for tonight and defrosting troughs, but they all seem quite happy munching on their haylage.

Supposed to be hunting in the morning but imagine it will be a matter of 'watch this space'....
 
Living out?? My lot fairly dragged me in to their nice cosy stables this evening, the old lady (33) is acting her shoe size instead of her age in her haste to get in that lovely deep straw. But yes - dry is sooooo much better.
Of course, it will never ever rain again now - I have spent a small fortune having drainage laid across the yard to stop the barn flooding :)
 
Shysmum said:
It's "cold through to your bones" weather - I hate it, you just cannot warm up.
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But its been dry for over a week!!! After all the wet weather we have had I am so delighted its not raining that to be honest I haven't noticed the cold. My fields are drying out and the horses legs are clean when they come in. I am a happy girl with this weather.:D
 
Enfys said:
Wrap up warmly. Keep ears and head covered up, and wear ski pants, they don't look so great but you'll be lovely and warm.

Cold is relative, yesterday it was -22C here, today I am boiling at -7C and that's right now at lunchtime. If you are used to 10C then -5 is cold, especially if you factor in the windchill which will make it seem worse.
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This! I wear ski pants... Although cant do zip or Velcro up now as belly getting too big. Sadly I have not found maternity ski pants :D

I am sooooo glad to se the back of the rain. Instead of pulling legs out of the mud, I am gaily skipping (its all relative :D) over the ground.

It can stay cold for all I care as long as I don't see a drop of bleedin rain!
 
I'm just so happy it hasn't rained for DAYS! Picked OH up from work and he said 'shall we go straight to the ponies?' Why the heck not, we were wearing trainers, just hope over the still soft gateways and skip gleefully across the rest :-D
 
I had a thermal camisole, long sleeved t-shirt, fleece, padded gilet, padded down jacket on all day, didn't take the outer jacket off all day until 6.30pm when my heating came back on - kept all those layers on and have thermals under my jeans all day whether I was in or out of the house.

But good point is while fields gone a bit rutty and hard they are drying out - hope to get the pony out tomorrow for first time since last weekend.
 
Many many many layers!
Thermals under my trousers, polo-neck, fleece top and jumper with a padded gillet over the top and a thinsulate hat on! Gloves too when not working as my hands go blue.

On the up side I have managed to poo pick for the first time in about a month - 13 barrows and counting :-/
 
Shysmum said:
It's "cold through to your bones" weather - I hate it, you just cannot warm up.
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Try getting run away with across a ploughed field, then long reining said hooligan up some long, steep hills, then lunging the thug, then riding again. I was lathered by the end of it all!
 
Its been snowing on and off for the last 3 days here - ever since I got back from South Africa, which was 28 degrees, so its been a shock to the system for me!! It doesn't seem to be sticking though, just falling. :confused: Blimmin cold as well.

Hang in there - its March next week, it can't go on too much longer. Occassionally it has snowed here in April, but even then, its only a month til then..
 
I haven't ridden since last sunday, on that glorious spring like day! The lane to the yard is icy, although the event horses from down the bottom have been ridden up it. I just don't want to take the chance of a slip. Mine have daily turnout, which is now bone dry thankfully, but the grass has stopped growing after a small spurt over the last couple of weeks and now looks very wind burnt. I keep telling myself that spring can't be far away, but they are predicting a very cold and snowy march!!
My horse much prefers summer weather, I guess that's because she's an arabian with a desert inhabiting sire!!
 
I bloody love it, its not wet, the animals are enjoying the sun, my paddocks and my chook pen are dry, my ponies are losing weight because the grass isn't growing-why are you all moaning! and if you are wearing so many layers, you just aren't moving enough :p
 
We've had a good covering of snow, which is now melting and I can see huge clods of grass sucked out of the ground where the horses have been walking about.:(

Wet, cold and miserable here, roll on Spring - when no doubt I'll be complaining about the influx of flies and midges.
 
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