It was a fresh -32 this morning. With the wind chill in effect the weatherman said it would feel more like -49 which is chilly in any body's books. I have a half hour walk to work so my solution to this problem was to wear all my clothes at the same time. In fact I think I wore more layers today than I did to go skiing yesterday. It seemed to do the trick and with my scarf up over my nose and my hat and hood pulled down low I was quite warm. Not only that but under sharia law I could have passed for "modestly dressed". That's a versatile look.

I went out at lunchtime with the same layers but without the scarf across my face. The wind chill was still in the -40s and breathing in the air was an amazing feeling, like your insides have just run down the beach and jumped into the North Sea for a dare. Plus there's the familiar sensation of all your bogies freezing inside your nose and I could feel my face setting into a rictus-like grin as my cheeks seemed to freeze.

It was a beautiful bright day which definitely makes things better and looking out from our office window we can see a bend in the Bow river below. The river is frozen over in places but under the Centre Street bridge there's a narrow channel still open. It looks like the river is boiling as 'steam' rises up in twisting wraiths from the running water. It's quite a sight.