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Snow horses

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:19 / 22.11.05

It is supposed to snow this week in London. What? Usually this kind of news makes me cringe as I dislike winter and messy snow but for some odd reason, the snowcast fills me with glee(today). I think it is because it's a nice prelude to xmas. And it will make my daughter happy as she currently likes to be a snow horse. ? Will you be winterwonderlandhappinessinhumanform or locked inside, planning your sunny get-away?

Spaniel

07:08 / 22.11.05

Well, I'm firmly of the opinion that the inner child *needs* snow to thrive, so I'll be outside playing in it.

Mistoffelees

07:10 / 22.11.05

We already had snow here on friday. I´m not a fan of snow, because it makes the city look even more dirty than without it. And it makes walking around even more of a hazard. When you cross the street, you have to wade through these melting brown snowmud carpets, which cars can drive through fast, leaving the stuff on you. And if it gets cold again all of a sudden, it turns to ice, and the ice can hide under fresh fallen snow.

Dog turds (20 tons a day in Berlin, and here most people don´t pick these up, bacause "I already pay taxes for my dog") hide under snow, too. And the snow turns a nice lemon colour when all the dogs mark their territory.

Lilly Nowhere Late

07:28 / 22.11.05

Yes Mistofelees I feel your irritation and usually I am of such a negative opinion of everything cold and snowy that clearly I should live in the desert. That's why I'm so surprised at my excitement. I'm sure once the reality hits I'll fade back to normal...

Mourne Kransky

07:40 / 22.11.05

Yay, snow!

Means all the public transport will grind to a halt though. Still, can hole up snug in the house like a Moomin.

pointless & uncalled for

09:10 / 22.11.05

Yay for snow.

Now the car driving idiots of the city will have even more of a reason to loose any reasonable form of control over their vehicles.

On the other hand as they weep bitter tears into their airbags, I'll be exercising my ninja skills to avoid them and the icy projetiles of the anklebiters.

I'll never take the bus. NEVAAAAAHHHHH.

Smoothly

09:26 / 22.11.05

I love all things wintry. The prospect of snow in London is too exciting for words.
I also love this thread because the title has cued Mike Oldfield’s Horse song to go on repeat in my head.

Hey and away we go,
Through the grass, cross the snow,
Big brown beastie, big brown face,
I’d rather be with you than flying through space.

Possibly the mellowest song ever written.

Loomis

09:36 / 22.11.05

I don't trust snow forecasts. You get all excited, then each day as you check the forecast and the snow day gets closer, the picture changes from two snowflakes to one, then to a rain drop, then a cloud, and finally to bright sun. No reason to expect anything different this time. Harrumph.

And why doesn't the met office have a picture for fog? It's very disconcerting when you have all the little pictures for everything else but then some days you get this nasty little pronouncement of FOG where the picture should be.

invisible_al

09:58 / 22.11.05

Oh dear the BBC is telling me it's sleet over the weekend

P. Horus Rhacoid

11:18 / 22.11.05

I hail from a wintry northern wasteland and I'm homesick at the moment, so snow would make me intensely happy. Minor problem: my only shoes are ripped low-top Chuck Taylors. Hooray for wet and frozen feet!

Wait, sleet? That's crap.

Mistoffelees

16:15 / 22.11.05

To make up for my snowbashing earlier, here are two photos I shot on a cemetery last february.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:37 / 22.11.05

Snow is, along with puppies and booze, THE BEST THING EVAH!!11!!1!

And I think I love Smoothly, for quoting Big Brown Beastie in a public forum.

Smoothly

22:43 / 22.11.05

I like thunder, and I like rain,
And open fires, and roaring flames.
But when the thunder’s in my brain,
I like to be on horseback.

*sigh*

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:45 / 22.11.05

I like beer and I like cheese
And I like the smell of a westerly breeze
But I like more than all of these...
To be on...
HORSEBACK!!!

Loomis

17:24 / 25.11.05

So did anyone actually get any snow today? We had a decent amount this morning in Edinburgh, although it's almost all disappeared now. No snow horses were sighted however. Sneaky buggers.

Liger Null

23:01 / 25.11.05

No snow horses were sighted however.

They galloped off, taking all the little frozen stiff squirrels with them...

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:22 / 26.11.05

No snow in London, I blame the earlier pessimism. There's still time.
Anyway I always have a snow horse or two in my house...

Mourne Kransky

06:45 / 26.11.05

It's all the fault of Invisible Al, the snow-stopping bastard.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:12 / 26.11.05

There were a couple of flakes just now, on my way home from the pub. A bit of a bollocks effort, though. That's the trouble with snow these days. It just doesn't try hard enough. Fuck, it barely reached the ground, let alone settle.

Lilly Nowhere Late

06:43 / 27.11.05

There's still hope for Christmas. Check your counties probability here: http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/whitechristmas.asp

But first cross your fingers and click your heels three times while running around the north facing fire counter clockwise, or something...

Got back from Macedonia last night. Skopje had three or four inches of snow on wednesday. Watched children making snowmen and snowballs. I only took trainers so felt like a bit of an idiot slipping and sliding around. There were horses too as the Roma were driving their carts about. Not particularly romantic, admittedly, as they are an underclass but horses and snow nevertheless.

...

A long time ago, even before Xoc was born, the river Thames used to freeze over in winter and there would be frost fairs held. I'd love to see that.

imaginary mice

10:58 / 27.11.05

Horse + snow + toboggan + bale of straw = WINTER FUN!

Sadly the picture below is a few years old. Since then horsey and I have moved to the south coast of England where it NEVER snows.

Mourne Kransky

20:32 / 29.11.05

Went to see The Three Emperors' exhibition at the Royal Academy and there were some wonderful 17th century Chinese silk paintings, enormous in scale but featuring little details of palace servants carving dogs and cats out of the snow. No snow horses though.

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