UNDER lockdown, England can only socialise by exercising with one other person outdoors – and it’s bloody freezing. These tips will help:
Keep moving
You may have gotten out of the habit in the last seven months, but moving generates heat. But no need to exercise: remember how you danced at school discos as a teenager and simply shift your weight from side-to-side while avoiding eye contact.
Full body scarfing
It seems a little selfish of the neck to be the only body part to benefit from the snuggly warmth of a scarf. Let all of you in on the fun by wrapping yourself in multiple strips of knitwear like an Egyptian mummy with a penchant for plaid. You’ll never look back.
Eat crisps
Fatty foods provide insulation, crisps are the perfect exercise snack, and the spicier the flavour, the better. Until you put your mask back on and knock yourself sick with your pungent paprika breath.
Take an oil-filled radiator
A fan-heater won’t work without a 200m extension cord, but those oil-filled radiators stay hot for up to 25 minutes. Roll it along to the park with you and gather around it like they do around burning barrels in dystopian future movies.
Smoke
What could keep you warmer than inhaling burning tobacco smoke? It’s a real deep-down inside toasty feeling with only a few minor health issues attached.
Take a flask
It may make you look like a loser at an air show, but a Thermos filled with coffee, hot chocolate or good old British Bovril will be your best friend in these troubled times. Or mulled wine if you want. Or just a hip-flask of whisky.
