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11:05 / 27.12.05

Weeeeeee, it's snowing in Hammersmith (and in other parts of london). Wow, I feel like a kid...pity I'm working today and tommorrow, otherwise I get a tea-tray and head for the hills of Greenwich. Good sledging country that is

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11:29 / 27.12.05

Fuck Yeah! Heaviest I've seen in years! (I'm at my parents house in Tenterden, in Kent)

Stoatie's power level is >9000

12:14 / 27.12.05

Yes! We have snow! Out the front there's none, but it looks like the cemetery's got a nice blanket.

At work last night we'd read in the papers that it was supposed to snow- I had one of my minions checking every half-hour to see if it had started yet. We all left very angry this morning not to have our promised snow.

But now we have! It's a good start- more please.

12:27 / 27.12.05

A light dusting of white over the palm trees and lush tropical vegetation down in Sarf London. I think we have slept through the blizzard though. Hope there's more coming, as long as it doesn't impede my flight tomorrow.

wembley can change in 28 days

12:31 / 27.12.05

Dammit, temperature dropped ten degrees on Christmas Eve, and now it's all icy wasteland here. It's only -7 today, though, so kinda balmy. And all Christmas Day it snowed those big, fat, lazy snowflakes that go down, and then up, and then down, and then up, and eventually they end up as a perfect blanket of snow.

I walked to work yesterday (glutton for punishment), and of course nobody was going anywhere, so part of my walk was across a large parking lot dusted with two inches of snow. I love the look and feel of being the first to walk over a field of white.

12:41 / 27.12.05

It was very pretty while it snowed, but now the sun is out, and South London's central heating is slowly melting anything that settled... still, big clouds coming in...

13:04 / 27.12.05

A few flakes fluttering down here in southest south London. I got a nice scarf for xmas, so I'll try that out this afternoon. Sledging will happen on a huge local hill if it gets any worse/better.

13:15 / 27.12.05

Out in the wilds of Hertfordshire it was snowing, but it's not settled. I can't decide if snow is good or bad; it is fun to play in, but then you realise that your commute will be a nightmare. Possibly the answer is to have snow days for adults as well.

13:20 / 27.12.05

I love snow and it's snowing over Brighton. It never snows over Brighton. So, the question is, why am I pissed off? Because it's snowing on the one fucking day that I have to get up to Scotland with my heavily pregnant partner and the train services are buggered. Over the festive season the journey takes long enough (longer than at any other time of year - our estimated eta *was* 22.00), but God knows how long it's going to take now.

13:24 / 27.12.05

To add a philosophical dimension to the discussion, perhaps snow is neither good nor bad, but our attitudes towards it change depending on the context.

Mad thought I know, but I'm like that: full of amazing ideas.

13:27 / 27.12.05

Stop ruining the snow.

13:41 / 27.12.05

Great, looming nimbostratus clouds filling the skyline over the Thames now. I expect a flurry shortly! Now, I just have to convince Ganesh to get up out of bed so we can go out and pretend we're in Narnia.

13:49 / 27.12.05

Is he going to wear a red scarf and drop presents, the little fawn?

14:01 / 27.12.05

You say it's snowing in Brighton, Boboss? How irritating, there isn't a flake here in Portslade.

wembley can change in 28 days

15:49 / 27.12.05

Because it's snowing on the one fucking day that I have to get up to Scotland with my heavily pregnant partner and the train services are buggered

Wait. No. I saw pictures on the guardian of how much snow there is. You're not. Saying. Public transport can't take more than a few inches...

18:11 / 27.12.05

We got a lot of snow here, and I overheard this afternoon, thursday should add another 7 inches of snow. No! On the 24th, it was nice and warm and no snow, and since the 26th, we got this big sheet of snow all over the city.

At first I thought, it´ll melt within the day, but it didn´t and it´s very cold. My nose is dripping all the time. And it´s three months until spring.

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

19:42 / 27.12.05

Well, the BBC News is running reports that Kent has been covered under so much snow that the rural inhabitants have already regressed to a primitive state (admittedly that's not too great a journey) and are busy sacrificing virgins in order to appease the sun god and make him come back, but in our little corner we had three flurries and a light sprinkling on the ground which had mostly melted by dusk. As I have to make my way back up to the Smoke tomorrow I'm hoping that any more blizzards hold off until I've got home and got some shopping in.

Mordant
(prev. This is *my* hole.)

21:09 / 27.12.05

YES! And I'm in the country, sort of, and it looks like a Xmas card and I'm so thrilled!

21:20 / 27.12.05

Ok, this is kind of funny. I have NO snow. Zero. Zip. Nadda. I am completely snowless, way up here in Canada.

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

11:25 / 28.12.05

This is insane. We had more snow overnight but even so it's not even an inch deep here, yet the trains in the south-east are completely fucked. I'm stuck here for a day or so, but I suspect it's more that aged father doesn't want to travel in case it's bad, rather than ignoring the fact that there's no problems on the motorways we need to get home.

11:45 / 28.12.05

Yeah i just read on the bbc news website that some southeast train services are cancelled in addition to their replacement bus services due to 'icy road conditions.' All day???

This is one big difference to me between London and some of the wintery climes in North America I'm familiar with. If it is snowing all day and all night in Chicago the one guarantee you have is that the trains will be running.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

12:10 / 28.12.05

To add a philosophical dimension to the discussion, perhaps snow is neither good nor bad, but our attitudes towards it change depending on the context.

Mad thought I know, but I'm like that: full of amazing ideas.

Someone BOG FLUSH that man immediately!

Got stuck on the train last night in the snow, on route to London. I was the only one on the train who enjoyed it i think. Fucking barhumbugs.

Don't forget Boboss, we're all pregnant in a way!

15:54 / 28.12.05

The sad dandruff like remains of the snow in Leicestershire...

I was hoping I'd be able to make a snowman today... but no, it's melting as usual.

15:56 / 28.12.05

Oops, sorry, that photos bigger than I expected...

Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake

17:50 / 28.12.05

Our piddling amount of snow

Hardly worth making a fuss about really...

Goodness Gracious Meme

02:42 / 29.12.05

Yesterday, waiting for a bus at Hyde Park Corner, it was snowing. Beautiful. (if a little brrr)

wembley can change in 28 days

08:51 / 29.12.05

Uh-oh. Apparently there's a big storm in the works for Helsinki today. I'll take some pictures if I'm caught out in it. This morning the wind actually drove me to work, combined with the ice on the ground, it was vaguely like being 3 again and having your dad push you around the skating rink...

10:24 / 29.12.05

The storm was supposed to hit this night, but it got delayed. It´s still snowing, though.

I took this photo minutes ago from my balcony.

(notice the little holiday tree to the left

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Tryphena Absent

12:16 / 29.12.05

The reason the trains break down is because they're parked outside overnight, so when people try to move them they find the wheels are frozen.

People forget that the reason parts of Britain come to a standstill when it's snowing is that we get on average two or three days of snow a year (particularly in the South East) so our vehicles aren't equipped with chains on the wheels, there are no snow ploughs, few gritting trucks and whatever else it takes to make us snow-capable. Primarily it would be a complete waste of money.

wembley can change in 28 days

12:43 / 29.12.05

Well, for an inch of snow you don't exactly need chains on your wheels.

I don't think we're allowed to have them in Canada, even - chains aren't allowed on Ontario roadways and they just legalized studded tires in North Ontario, although we do have snow tires. In Finland they have a date by which you legally HAVE to have your snow tires on, and a date by which you have to remove them in the spring. Because we can't make those decisions on our own when the brain freezes.

It's not just a British thing, though - I suspect it's more a weird psychological thing, because Vancouver actually gets very little snow as well, and my mother (who moved there from Finland) was amazed to find herself in traffic slower than frozen molasses because a few snowflakes were a-drifting down.

Actually, she was in a bus at the time, and after waiting in one spot without moving for twenty minutes apparently said "Well, I'm going for a beer. Anybody want to join me?"

09:08 / 30.12.05

Bulletin from Yorkshire: It's hell, I tell you, A WHITE HELL!

Please send copies of Bulleteer #1 so we can wank ourselves warm.

09:26 / 30.12.05

Aw, poor shivery Sax. I was up north in those frozen Narnian lands briefly there and even the sperm was freezing in the vas deferens. Back in the warm and balmy Sarf now where we are still snowless and spurting.

My family were keeping warm by resorting to the Microwaveable Bears they all got for Christmas.

09:29 / 30.12.05

I draw the line at wanking over a bear, microwaveable or not.

09:32 / 30.12.05

What's not to wank over?

09:34 / 30.12.05

It's been raining a lot here. I didn't realize it was supposed to do that until spring, but wtf do I know? It snowed here once. It was maybe 4 years ago, and I woke up at my friend's house, looked outside and saw snow everywhere. It was fucking beautiful. There was only maybe an inch or 2 of it, but the roads were closed. That's the only time I've ever seen it snow in this part of California. I went to Georgia a few years ago, and it snowed a hell of a lot, and everyone was acting like it was totally normal.

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