Showing posts with label chilblains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chilblains. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Chilblains, Chilblains, Chilblains

Toast with strawberry jam; toast with bramble jam and two clementines.
One of the great disadvantages of living in the cold north is the chilblains. Of course I do all the wrong things: plunging my icy feet into hot baths, warming them on my hotwater bottle at night, practically putting them in the fire in the evenings. Still, even when I try my very hardest to avoid such temptations I seem to suffer from them. I feel like I've fallen out of the wrong century. It doesn't seem to be a very modern affliction. Though I suppose most people nowadays aren't obliged to wear five layers indoors.