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Snow day! Snow day!

 
 
Laughing
09:06 / 22.02.05
It snowed for four hours last night! The roads are icy and blocked! Which means I don't have to go to work! NO WORK ALL DAY! ITALY IS COVERED IN SNOW AND I AM AT HOME DRINKING COFFEE AND WATCHING SMALLVILLE!

Sometimes it's all okay. Just sometimes, mind you, but those sometimes are enough.
 
 
Jub
09:19 / 22.02.05
I was hoping to get snowed out of London but to no avail. Trains running as usual. I wish I had today off. You must be laughing.
 
 
Cherielabombe
09:57 / 22.02.05
Darn it! I'm jealous! Still hoping for a snow day
 
 
Grey Area
11:47 / 22.02.05
We had one here on Monday. One inch of snow and everyone in the province rang 0800-DAYOFF. Me? I live on campus. I live where I work. Grrr...
 
 
Laughing
11:47 / 22.02.05
I just heard that since I have today off I may have to work on Saturday.

...

But this shan't ruin my Snow Day celebration! It shan't!

"More cocoa, Esmeralda! More brandy! And toss another newspaper on the space heater. I feel a chill upon my bones!"
 
 
rising and revolving
12:23 / 22.02.05
"I just heard that since I have today off I may have to work on Saturday."

Who's laughing now?

Sorry, couldn't resist. I shall attempt more restraint in the future.

Seriously though, here they don't do snow days, regardless of how freakin' cold it gets. Unless a blizzard knocks out all the power in the city, anyhow.
 
 
Spaniel
06:34 / 02.02.09
UK=covered

It never settles in Brighton.

It HAS settled in Brighton, and it's STILL SNOWING

Yay
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
06:59 / 02.02.09
Has anyone actually made it into work? I got no trains, I got no buses, I got excited children going tobogganing. I'm giddy with nostalgia...
 
 
Automatic
07:41 / 02.02.09
I trudged through the icy tundra of London into work. I wish I could go home again - I want to make a snowman!
 
 
Neon Snake
08:09 / 02.02.09
Somewhat foolishly (in hindsight), I was planning on spending today taking down some wardrobes and clearing my garage, and therefore the skip I hired has just been deposited on my driveway. Spending today trudging up and down the drive to and from my garage is suddenly lacking in appeal. And the skip is slowly filling with snow.

And as for you, Haus, with your talk of "job" and your "being in gainful employment"...I throw bitter looks in your general direction and mutter about the bloody economy under my breath. Hh.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
08:21 / 02.02.09
London has indeed ground to a halt. Thank you snowy goodness. I love you!
 
 
Quantum
08:32 / 02.02.09
It HAS settled in Brighton, and it's STILL SNOWING

...and yet here I am at work, grr argh. At least I can get my schadenfreude watching cars slide down the road.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
10:18 / 02.02.09
It's like JG Ballard in London...but good!

I just walked around in my local park, listening to the lovely crunch of deep packed snow underfoot.

My bosses also phoned me and told me not to bother coming in. I needed a lot of persuasion obviously...
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
20:10 / 02.02.09
I took the boy out to build him a snowman - got to the park, thought about the fact he is only 6 months old and wouldn't really get it, and then looked in his pram to realise that he'd just gone to sleep.

Still, the snowman looked awesome.
 
 
Spaniel
20:31 / 02.02.09
We had our very first snowman building session with our boy today. Was ace.

In fact the lad almost certainly had a brilliant time what with Mummy and Daddy both off work (Monday is normally Grandma day), snow, and uncle The Natural Way showing up for some baddie car action.
 
 
Poke it with a stick
21:37 / 02.02.09
I'd like to put myself forward as the voice of the Humble Northern Working Man and say:

Southern jessies. What you get down there isn't snow - it's a light dusting of namby-pamby icing sugar on your capitalist champagne-soaked pudding of a city.

Bet it's pretty, you soft southern gets.

...yes, why now you mention it, I am at work as normal.
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
22:56 / 02.02.09
Other cities are smaller and also contain more cars. Sure you crazy northerners may want to trek four miles in the snow and then go underground into a severely delayed, rammed tube network full of miserable, cold bastards in suits just to get to work but some of us prefer to make snowmen and have afternoon tea in our warm houses.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
10:00 / 03.02.09
Abso-flaming-lutely.

I am sad that today it's all back to normal here.
 
 
trouble at bill
11:54 / 03.02.09
Southern jessies.

Weeel, given that it's moving north and the forecast is dire, you may have just blown your chances of getting any sympathy whatsoever from us, heh...
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
12:30 / 03.02.09
Southern Jessies, Northern Pansies...
100_0480
100_0482
100_0489

Ask me, none of you Island folk know what snow is...
 
 
Spaniel
13:50 / 03.02.09
When did this become a competition?

(That is a lot of snow)
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
14:02 / 03.02.09
No competition: I was taking a poke at Ice Cream. He's a northern Lad? I wintered 97-98 in Crewe and we had 20 minutes of snow which lasted in the ground maybe an hour & a half. Not that Crewe is really that North, but I did spend X-Mas/Hogmnnay in Edinburgh: Wasn't any snow there, either.

All in fun: Enjoy the snow while it's there my English cousins.
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
16:47 / 03.02.09
I have to say that this afternoon when I was sliding to the supermarket in my trainers (because stupidly my walking boots are on the other side of London) I started to get sick of the lack of infrastructure we have to deal with this crazy-weather. Particularly my lack of infrastructure.
 
 
Poke it with a stick
16:56 / 03.02.09
Hey kids, no worries - I wasn't being entirely serious - just bitter there wasn't enough snow in Glasgow for me to plausibly stay off work.

And now there's no snow at all...
 
 
grant
17:22 / 03.02.09
What's that white stuff around the trees in those photographs?
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
17:44 / 03.02.09
Don't get excited Grant, I know you're from Florida and all, but it's not what you think...
 
 
Internaut
01:41 / 04.02.09
I've just awoken to a nice, heavy load of orange cloud cover over my dreary Scottish town.

It's slowly drifting down at 3.40am, and it's looking to be a lovely, peaceful day.

Here's hoping for a bloody day off.
 
 
Quantum
07:37 / 04.02.09


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