Last blog was about the Christmas celebration at Wildflower
Home and this time I will tell you a bit about winter here. In Europe,
Christmas and winter are almost synonyms, it has to be cold outside, nice and
cozy at the fireplace inside. It is the time of hot chocolate, candles, early
sunset, needle trees, salty roads, gloves, bonnet, icicle and -if you are
luck-, of snow. Winter in Thailand is slightly different, less cold in the
first place. Surprisingly, it can still be very freezing. The women at Wildflower
Home are often wearing gloves and coats in the mornings and my skiing socks
have become my new best friends. There is now infrastructure for cold nights,
no insulated walls, no double glazing, often not even closing windows. Maybe
worse is, that you are not prepared for the cold, too. Even with two blankets
and a warm pyjama's is a temperature drop from 32 °C to 8 °C degrees nothing
your body likes. As a result, all of our infants have running noses, colds and
look rather unhappy. Nothing too serious, thank god.
The days are still as hot as always and it feels wrong
having a cold while the sun burns on your face, but that might be stupid
European problems. But the heat is different than in August, not as standing as
it has been. The shadow is therefore often very chilled and it might be the
only time in the year, everyone at
Wildflower Home sits after lunch in the sun to get warm again.
Nicola,
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