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I liked your bit about the snow. I am in london today doing some work here, I live in Manchester and HOPEfully driving home at some point tomorrow. I can wait to see what happens here when it snows. We cope really well in the north. BTW its my birthday today and I love the snow so I am looking foward to waking up in the morning to see you southerners is a state of panic....

donna | 08.02.07 - 12:28 a.m. | #

"It only takes a single flake of snow for London's transport network to grind to a halt, and we're expecting several million flakes this morning."

Ha. Hahahahaha.

That is all.

The Girl | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 1:03 a.m. | #

I have my alarm clock set for 6 so I can be first over at the dip in the local park with my tea tray (and large poly bag in case arse too big for tea tray) - we have several inches of snow forecast in Bury St Edmunds too. Have just stuck my head through attic skylight however and although my nose end froze within seconds, there is no sign of snow. I'm beginning to think it *is* possible we might already have seen the last ...

Ruby in Bury | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 1:26 a.m. | #

I think your disclaimer needs a disclaimer.

quin | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 6:49 a.m. | #

Brilliant.

I do like the "travel only if it's absolutely essential". What is essential?

- Is work essential? (if I don't go in, I can lose my job)
- Is a holiday essential? (if I don't go, you could lose a huge amount of money)
- Is a school run essential? (if I don't take little Jimmy, then he can drop out, become a menace to society, and die in a cocaine filled ditch at the age of 27)

Likewise, as a friend said "It's never snowed on the underground."

Rhys | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 9:26 a.m. | #

Even the nasty parts of London look good in the snow.

Amused | 08.02.07 - 9:58 a.m. | #

Whatever happened to the next ice age we were promised back in the seventies? Has global warming cancelled it?

Debster | 08.02.07 - 10:56 a.m. | #

Today we will be mostly stealing tea trays from the canteen and tobogganning down the hill outside. And we haven't even done a risk assessment

Scaryduck | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 11:07 a.m. | #

The dog poo in my garden is covered in lovely fluffy snow.

My snowman smells funny.

Uncle Hunty | 08.02.07 - 11:08 a.m. | #

NOTE TO THE REGIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANIES OF SE ENGLAND (including the tube): In several parts of Europe you can get a train to go skiing. A train. Yes. A train. They run on rails, you know.

Adrian Zmed | 08.02.07 - 11:36 a.m. | #

Hmmm... not sure about your last proper snowy day in London DG... my photographic records (and the Met office website) suggest we had some pretty good snow early Janaury 2003.

But thanks for the warning that it may be the last. Have taken those hundreds of pics as suggested . Local schools closed and kids currently building an igloo at the top of the road. Which is nice.

NiC | 08.02.07 - 11:58 a.m. | #

Hysterical...

City Slicker | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 12:15 p.m. | #

Excellent flickr tagged photos - we could probably piece together a snow-map of london streets from that!

Harriet | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 12:23 p.m. | #

We got snow, we got snow, yaaay!

Ruby in Bury | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 4:14 p.m. | #

Rhys, I'm sure it has snowed quite a lot on the underground, including today, as lots of the underground is overground.

It has been snowing quite a lot here in Birmingham too. There was a snowman up in our avenue before I was this morning. It all looks beautiful and I love it.

Chig | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 9:23 p.m. | #

I remember a snow-covered London on a 31st March thirty years ago.
Snow on February 8th is nothing to wander at, is it?

Pepe | 08.02.07 - 10:23 p.m. | #

What about the snow a couple of weeks ago? Tourists were busy snapping the Tower of London all in white.

Kevinho | 08.02.07 - 10:31 p.m. | #

Actually it might not be your last. Some scientists believe global warming will upset the salt balance of the northern atlantic, because of melting ice off greenland... which will then act to disrupt the ocean currents that keep northern europe warm.

Once this conveyor belt of warm carribean ocean water is shut off, the UK will then assume it's logical climate, similar to that of Nova Scotia.

Or so they say....

John | Homepage | 09.02.07 - 3:11 p.m. | #

I'm glad to see that the great London tradition of snow-panic is still going strong. One of my nephews is currently in Sapporo, Japan, where it snows for up to six months of the year, and he writes: The pavement in Sapporo is heated to prevent people slipping. The birds often sit on the paths with their heads under their wings as the path is the warmest place for them to be while they sleep.

Great Aunt Annie | 11.02.07 - 7:09 p.m. | #











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