Frozen fountain in Beveridge Park
As you can see from this photograph it has been so cold here that everything has frozen up. It has been colder than Norway, Finland and the South Pole.
So we have all been chittering, which is the Scottish word for shivering. You might think it strange when I say that my worst attacks of chittering have always been in the summertime. The reason for this is that when you are wee, you seem to have a thing for paddling in water, and before you know it, you’re up to your neck in it. I’ve noticed that this happens to dogs too.
There’s no sense to it whatsoever because you know that you are either in the North Sea or a loch full of snow melt from the mountains. So it can’t be anything other than freezing and you’re going to end up chittering within about 10 seconds of hitting the water.
Luckily your mum will have come prepared with a chittery-bite. This is something nice for you to eat – a sandwich or a cake or maybe chocolate. Anything for you to get your teeth wrapped around and before long, you will have stopped chittering and your mum has saved you from hypothermia – again.
To be fair it is summer at the South Pole just now so the temperature there will be balmy.
My mum used to hand out biscuits for a chittery-bite.
Yes, I think most wee ones would expect something nice and sweet as a chittery-bite. West of Scotland mothers could always be relied on in that way, however, it did our teeth no favours.
Love the new website–congratulations on the move and the makeover. I’ve been chittering away here in Colorado too–snow on the ground since November! That never happens.
Like the pic of the frozen fountain, though.
Thank-you. We have just got rid of the snow, we had it for nearly a month which is unheard of here. It tends not to lie long when you are as close to the sea as we are. The ice was the worst though. Scary.
The curlers and ice hockey players enjoyed it.