Why do you love/hate winter?

[Newton]

Personally I love the winter for the clear crisp days. But I cannot stand the short daylight hours and not being able to visit the lottie after work.

[Florence Fennel]

I dread the snow and ice. I had a fall a couple of years ago and it's really knocked my confidence for walking on slippery surfaces. If there's even a couple of inches of snow we can't get the car off the side road and so I can't get to work. Having said all that, if I'm on jollies I love it!

[rustylady]

Hate the dark days, love looking at snow, but hate trying to walk when it's slippery.

[zazen999]

I'm going to be really dull here, and say that I absolutely hate getting into cold clothes. So they all have to be either in the airing cupboard or on rads. If I forget, they have to be put in front of a blowy air heater before I can put them on.

And I hate having a cold back. Brrrr.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I certainly lose a bit of my mojo in the winter months. Maybe just because I perform better when under work pressure.

[HeyWayne]

I love daylight. I love being outside. I love thin duvets. I love walking in flip flops through long grass. I love the sound of cricket being played on the village green. I love supping ale in a pub garden by a canal.

Winter's just bleak.

[singleseeder]

I love daylight. I love being outside. I love thin duvets. I love walking in flip flops through long grass. I love the sound of cricket being played on the village green. I love supping ale in a pub garden by a canal.

Winter's just bleak.

All of the above available 12 months of the year, you just have to be determined

[Bren In Pots]

I put up with winter because of Christmas so by boxing day I want it to be summer again.

[northepaul]

I love the cold crisp days, when its crunchy underfoot, and the sky is clear blue.... and the fact that at Christmas I get two weeks off!
When I had one, I used to love lighting a fire and sitting in front of it.....

[Garden_Chris]

Why do I love winter? Man alive, I don't think there's a list long enough, but I'll give it a go!

My Birthday!
SNOW!
SANTA!

I love the crispness of a cold winters day, and I absolute love getting all wrapped up in winter clothes going on walks with the dogs and coming back lovely and warm but with rosy red cheeks sitting down to a lovely Sunday Dinner (they somehow always taste better in winter).

Then there's sledging. I cannot over emphasise this point enough: Then. There's. Sledging.
SLEDGING!!
This is literally a direct route back to my childhood - and I'm sure it is for so many more people. You see people from every background, any financial status, any variety of human in today's society: when we go sledging we're all that little child that adores the adrenaline rush of flying down a snowy slope and charging back up the hill - just to do it again, and again - until we're either shattered or someone has cold feet.

I can put up with all the winter has to throw: cold days, long nights, darkness and a seemingly never ending rain if I am allowed to go sledging. It's just that fun. That won't ever change for me

Also, if your front drive is on a slight slope then try throwing a bucket of water down it the night before a frost so that the next day you've got a fantastical slope to skid up and down on, whenever you leave or come back to the house it's absolute mayhem trying to get to and from the front door, but you've got a smile as wide as a Cheshire Cat doing it though.

(I'll post more if I can think of more!)

[Thelma Sanders]

I can't garden as much as I would like because of awful weather and I hate the lack of light and get SAD quite bad, must invest in a daylight thingey!
My joints get rusty and seize up during winter, and I never seem to feel warm, even with heating full pelt ;(

All in all I hate winter!

Christmas is a very small consolation on the way to spring

[Creemteez]

With you on the sledging, Chris. We have a very steeply sloping field at the back of our place, so it would be just plain ungrateful not to make use of it. Out comes the bit of wide, plastic fascia-board, and we're off!
As to other stuff i love...
Eating something that has been going "blip, blip,blip" in the oven all day and has dumplings floating in it.
Snuggling up on the sofa with Mr Teez and Beau.
Crispy Days
Starry,starry nights - observed through the Velux window in our bedroom while all snuggled up.
Winter dog walks - even drying off a wet dog has it's rewards as he's SO happy when he sees the hair-dryer come out!
Seeing the first shoots of bulbs pushing through and knowing it won't be long till spring.
Loads of other stuff. I don't mind winter at all, really!

[taff]

I love it too. If you've never been freezing, you can't appreciate a really hot bath and warm socks and a snuggly blanket or two.
Also with the blip blip blip and dumplings. And venturing out looking like hell at half four safe in the knowledge no-one can see in the dark.
Crispy mornings, and watching frost steam off in the sunlight. Seeing all the animal tracks in the snow.
snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, I can keep going all day, snow, snow, snow
having a deadline on work in the garden, being freezing doing it, then inside for a cup of tea to look over your good work through the window all warm again.

[veggiechicken]

Also with the blip blip blip and dumplings.

Any recipes for "Blip, Blip, Blip" please as both Creemteez and Taff seem to like it so much.

[Alison]

Hate the dark and cold but do love a nice winter stew when wrapped up nice and cosy. Also know that if it was hot and sunny every day I'd not really appreciate it so you need to contrast.