We do this too! Not the table tennis, necessarily, but just getting on with activities in spite of the rain.

In Russia people are more "weather conscious", I think.. They dress warmer, for example. My heart still jumps when I see a baby without hat/socks on a cool day. In Russia babies strictly swaddled. I know by my experience with Sasha, who inherited her father's dislike for being too hot, that she doesn't get meningitis as a consequence of her un-wanting to wear a hat sometimes (not when it is really cold, it is never really cold here :).

The weather is rainy and cold today. Resolution: watch more of the Foyle's war during the evening..:)