DOES all this sub-zero chilliness and wrapping up in big coats leave you… well… cold?

Staying by the radiator and only venturing out with arctic-ready bobble hats may seem essential as temperatures drop to -20C.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Here, I’ve found the most fun ways to beat the beastly weather.

Float like a butterfly..

GO TO your nearest butterfly house, which will be a blizzard-beating 24C. Instantly I was baking hot. Making friends with an Atlas Moth I could see how he gets used to this life. It doesn't have to worry about the weather and sleepily hung from a branch basking in the baking heat. Lucky for some!

Get ahot dog for a cuddle..

NEXT up I found a canine friend in the form of Abbie. She looked like the perfect companion to fight the freeze. Clutching her favourite toy I tried to coax her into a cuddle, but she quickly sussed the ploy and pawed off, leaving me cold, and covered in dog hair.

Wear ALL your clothes at once

STILL not warm enough, I needed to lavish on the layers. Squeezing into 15 jumpers and a three pairs of joggers I loved the comfort of the Michelin man look.

Bragging about beating the big chill I decided to do some lunges but leaning forward I toppled over. All those clothes had bulked me up so much I couldn't balance - back to square one then.

Tinfoil wrap..

SURELY Nasa can save the day. They designed the material for the Marathon foil blanket and it's been used in every space mission since. I felt like a cosy ET wearing this fetching silver foil around me.

Have a vindaloo..

IT'S called hot food for a reason, right? And attempting to combat the cold I had certainly built up an appetite, so a superhot curry seemed a two-birds, one-stone thing.

Biting into the vindaloo's big chillies, my mouth was on fire and the heat went all the way down to my feet.

Sweating into my supper, I was certainly feeling something. Determined it wasn't going to beat me, I finished the plate. Not cold, just in loads of pain.

Get a sweat on

NEEDING to unwind after a hectic day of finding winter warmers, I headed straight to the leisure centre for nice sauna.If it's good enough to kill the chill in Finland then it must work for Blighty.

At 90 degrees centigrade the heat whacked me in the face and literally took my breath away. It felt like being inside a hot water bottle and soaked up the sweat from that vindaloo.

Thermal undies..

WITH the cold seeping through my shoes and into my bones, I needed to get hold of some trusty thermals.

In an attentionseeking bright pink striped number I willed myself warm.

Still not enough to curb the cold, I tried a few star jumps and within seconds I'd worked up a sweat.

Hot tub

BRAVING the weather once again I headed to a rooftop terrace.

Changing into a swimming costume in this weather sounded like insanity - and felt that way as I walked barefoot over the powdery freezing snow.

It was the only way to get to the hot tub in the stylish Bermondsey Square Hotel.

But sitting on the edge of the tub with panoramic visions of London around me I found the perfect way to fend off the freezing cold.