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But I thought they were faking that in "Bridget Jones Diary"...

Cherry Bomb

08:37 / 08.01.03

So I returned to lovely London this morning only to gasp in amazement at *SNOW*! Followed by what appears to be quite a lot of fluffy white sticky type snow. I thought I left all this behind in Chicago...

What happened???

Ariadne

08:47 / 08.01.03

It's all my fault. There's this fridge, you see. (See the brain thread)

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:08 / 08.01.03

I went to bed the night before last, thinking how much I missed snow since moving to the capital, and suddenly here we are. I feel a messiah complex coming on...

Innit lovely, though? I wonder if I can make it out to the park at lunchtime...

Cherry Bomb

09:22 / 08.01.03

You think you have a messiah complex? I think I may have magically brought snow power in with me from Chicago...

Just remember kids, snow's real pretty, until you have to drive in it. Or until it turns black. Or yellow...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:02 / 08.01.03

SnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowsnowSNOW! FUCKING SNOW!
I FUCKING LOVE SNOW!
SNOW ROCKS LIKE A PIRATE ZOMBIE!

Snow does, indeed, rock a snow leopard's ass. Especially when you're out walking in it with two cute little dogs and a baby who's never seen the stuff before. And you've been sensible and bought a cup of coffee to take with you. Oh yes indeed.

wembley can change in 28 days

10:12 / 08.01.03

[ Giving all y'all a superior look from Helsinki ]

Snow, schmoe. Wake me up when it's -25 in London!

(But seriously - congrats on snow, because i can't possibly imagine winter without it. It makes the darkness seem a bit brighter. Make me a snowman, someone!)

Bear

10:24 / 08.01.03

Coldest place in Britain yesterday was Aviemore which was around -18 I believe, now that's pretty damn cold.

It doesn't happen in London alot though does it, so this is going to be the first glimpse for some kids right? That's neat.

Ganesh

10:25 / 08.01.03

I'm lucky enough to have most of the day off today, having concluded the one thing I had to do, around 9.30. Wandered back through the centre of London, thinking exactly that thought about 'Bridget Jones' Diary'. At Picadilly Burger King, a couple of excited African boys had abandoned their customers to run outside and photograph Eros in the snow. A group of American tourists clearly reckoned all their Christmases had come at once: a big red London bus had stopped, and they were hurrying to get photos (red London bus and snowy Picadilly Circus!) before the lights changed.

I feel quite at home...

Ganesh

10:27 / 08.01.03

And outside the 'Big Issue' office in Vauxhall, a row of carefully-sculpted Gormleyesque snow-homeless are touting old issues, and gazing beseechingly at passers-by with eyes of gravel...

Hattie's Kitchen

10:30 / 08.01.03

Snow snow lovely lovely snow.

Not so lovely for my flatmate, whose bedroom ceiling collapsed last night under the weight of all that mushy loveliness.

Cherry Bomb

10:33 / 08.01.03

In my little jet-lagged fog, it's nice (and really, so strange!) looking out the window and seeing it all swirling down. Mmmm.... this is what cups of cocoa and movies were made for.. And this is the best kind of snow, too. "Packing snow." That means good for making snowballs and snowpeople.

Hmm. Jet-lag busting nappy-poo soon, followed by more snow wonderment!

Cherry Bomb

10:35 / 08.01.03

Yikes I heard there was only about a half-inch in London yesterday! Do you live in London? Or someplace where there was supersubstantial snow? The wet snow IS heavier.

It occurs to me that I didn't see this much continuous snow during the entirety of my time in the Homeland.

Ariadne

10:42 / 08.01.03

Transatlantic confusion there - nappy poo would tend to mean something rather different here, Cherry. I finally worked out you meant a sleep, but I was bewildered at first!

Saveloy

10:43 / 08.01.03

Where's my bloody snow, then? Oh, plenty of skull-cracking, kidney-numbing coldness for us down here on the South Coast, thank you very much, but snow? No. I set myself on fire and jumped into an active volcano last night and I was still freezing. All I want is a couple of inches of virgin snow to compensate, but it appears I'm not allowed that tiny comfort, no, it's all been reserved for that London. Come on Mr Livingstone, don't you think you've got enough snow now? Isn't it time someone else had a go?

Ganesh

10:50 / 08.01.03

"Nappy-poo", eh? I'll admit I was also somewhat startled that you were divulging the type and consistency of your stools online, Cherie...

Vauxhall Gardens looks lovely all whited-out. Cats sitting on window-sill wondering whether it's worth putting up with the cold to watch the snowflakes.

The Strobe

11:30 / 08.01.03

I like snow. I just don't like ice. So: snow in country, good, I'd be staying at home working or reading anyhow. Or can go outside for snowy-fun walks.

Snow in city bad. Icy pavements, bicycles turn into death-traps, far too fucking cold, water melts everywhere.

And I'm going to (one of) the coldest fucking cities in Britain on Sunday. Nothing between it and the arctic circle. Bollocks.

Thank god I got lovelylovely gloves for Christmas.

Shortfatdyke

11:38 / 08.01.03

I've just got home after driving across the hills, on little country lanes with snow hurtling at the windscreen. It was wonderful, but scary. I made a snowball for the first time in years, and threw it at my mother. Fab stuff. But snow in London? Weird!

sleazenation

11:47 / 08.01.03

Yay ! first snowball fight of the season!

Kit-Cat Club

12:02 / 08.01.03

I was going to whinge about how you Londoners get all the excitement - first ricin, now snow, whatever next ? (Congestion charges, obviously, but that's not the point) But I've just been out for a walk and it is actually snowing here and settling - there's just not very much of it yet, though the signs are promising. Huge grey clouds, no wind, birds and squirrels in the Parks noticeably more subdued than normal, the duck pond is totally frozen over and so are parts of the areas where the Cherwell has flooded (though the water is going down slowly. The ground is frozen too. I hope it does snow - Oxford in the snow is lovely, and I've only seen it once before. And I want to make a snowman in the front quad.

that

12:54 / 08.01.03

So snow's good an' all, as long as you're inside or at least not sliding round on roads or pavement, but what the hell does nappy-poo mean in the US?

Bear

12:59 / 08.01.03

I thought it was just cute talk like would you like to go for a "drinky-poo" - starting to wonder now though

Persephone

13:17 / 08.01.03

Is it "nappy" that's the problem? That just means nap, as in a little sleep. Not diapers.

Not only do we not have snow, it's warm. It's like fifty degrees (Farenheit), sunny, blue sky... very weird.

rizla mission

13:59 / 08.01.03

Bah. I wish I was in London in the snow. That would be cool.

Here in the Midlands we've got;

a)A sufficiently small amount of snow so that it looks crap and is slippery.

b)unceasing, bonequaking, headnumbing coldness

worst of both worlds..

that

14:00 / 08.01.03

Oh. That makes sense. I guess I could've worked that out from the context, but my brain froze up...

14:27 / 08.01.03

Snow? For some reason I thought this thread was going to be about anal sex.

Baz Auckland

14:42 / 08.01.03

I love you all for being excited about snow. Enjoy!

Whisky Priestess

14:55 / 08.01.03

Anal sex in the snow might be a bit of a non-starter. To quote George Orwell, "it is not easy to make love in a cold climate".

But snow though. Snow! Cool! I too took photos of Eros, and there were people chucking snowballs at each other in Hanover Sqaure, just outside the Vogue offices. Which was kind of sweet.

Sax

15:01 / 08.01.03

It was probably a photo-shoot with a load of polystyrene balls for snow. In fact, it probably hasn't snowed on London at all; it's just one big lump of fakery for Natmags.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:32 / 08.01.03

Grr. What Sav said.

Actually, walking home late the other night, friend and i were getting quite excited about being able to see the snow falling. But did it settle? Hah. Did it hell.

So pretty much just bloody brass monkeys freezing and no picturesque white stuff.

(although just before christmas went out to a club night thing and got all excited 'cause we could see the flakes swirling outside the pub window... Had a lovely Jimmy Stewart five minutes. Then a kind soul took pity on us and told us that they had a *snow machine*.)

Cherry Bomb

15:46 / 08.01.03

It *is* cute talk for a nap. Sorry, I'm jet-lagged and all my American speech patterns have been reinstated! Now back to reading the rest of the thread - though Kit-Cat's, "First ricin, now snow" is really a classic quote.

Cherry Bomb

15:49 / 08.01.03

Yes Persephone it occured to me when I was at O'Hare yesterday and saw that it was 28F in London that, through some sort of crazy mix-up, Chicago's gotten London's winter weather and London's gotten Chicago's. Not sure how that happened.

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