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Sax

06:37 / 30.12.05

You know, as soon as I'd hit "post reply" I knew I'd done wrong. Even after all these years on Barbelith I'm still, deep down, a guileless Northern lad who is no match for the sharp wits of you London types.

Ganesh

06:39 / 30.12.05

But do you wax, Sax?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:43 / 30.12.05

Another couple of inches. We were supposed to have some aunts and uncles come over this evening and one set have already phoned and cancelled. I'm being very smug and annoying my father by pointing out that the weather reports yesterday had stopped saying it was going to be very cold with rain and had started saying snow, he's just saying it'll turn to rain and wash it all away later on today. I hope he's right, else I won't be going home tomorrow either. And I've got a Doctor Who DVD set I ordered that should be turning up at my place any day now...

wembley can change in 28 days

08:33 / 30.12.05

Ganesh! Terrifying realization: despite the number of depilated boy bands and cK models I've been exposed to in my lifetime, THAT picture made me want a phone number.

I'm... a bear person! Can girls be bear people? (And he's quite a moderate bear, really. But the phone number...)

Mon Oncle Ignatius

08:37 / 30.12.05

We had snow remain in the park for days after the initial flurry, if on the football pitch for the most part where the ground is colder. Throwing mini-snowballs for the dog to catch still remains fun after all these years, and it's still novel enough for her to enjoy.

Now it's snowing and raining at the same time, which is a vile combination and seems like weather conditions best avoided by the simple expedient of not going out. Damn. The dog - she will need walking at some point.

Tabitha Tickletooth

14:23 / 18.01.07

Here in Whitehall we're being warned to stay in our buildings to avoid flying/falling debris (they'll say anything to screw a little more time out of us) but I hear joyous news of snow in Scotland.

Is it true, northern Lithers? How good is it?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:30 / 18.01.07

It is indeed bloody windy in London.

Was out walking Sheena and my friend's dog Charlie earlier- the cemetery's been closed (as the guy who works there put it "there's more wood flying through the air than at fucking Agincourt") as has the park, where there are huge trees snapped in half.

On the way home, with my headphones on, I was startled by Sheena suddenly jumping about two feet in the air. I looked round to see that a plant pot had just hit the ground about a foot behind where I was walking, and had narrowly missed my head. Then a branch snapped off a tree and missed my face by about six inches. I'm not going out again.

I'd love snow. Snow's nice. Please tell us of your Scots snow.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

14:42 / 18.01.07

-30C when I walked to work yesterday (Sherbrooke, Quebec) and bloody AMAZING. I love extreme cold for one or two days at a stretch -- you really get to bundle up, and since it's a 45-minute walk to work, I really have to go to town with hats, scarves, etc. The river was freezing so fast it was throwing up a twelve-foot fog bank. I listened to Beethoven's Fidelio, and after twenty minutes my leg hairs had all frozen individually inside my jeans and I could feel the action of the denim brushing against every single one of them.

VIVA CANADA. It is good here. We fight ice wolves for glory.

Mistoffelees

16:12 / 18.01.07

That "Kyrill" is the worst storm here in the last four years. All trains have stopped driving, and everyone´s been told to stay inside. The wind is blowing with up to 150 km/h, and even reached 198 km/h at some places. It´s going to maximize around midnight, and to taper of tomorrow at around 10.00 am.

Blake Head

16:15 / 18.01.07

Tabitha: A little bit of hail this morning and the other day here in Edinburgh, but it's not settling. Bloody windy mind. There's hope though: I think Fife and Stirlingshire got it fairly bad, so maybe we'll see some in the next few days.

Blake Head

16:17 / 18.01.07

... But not quite as bad the winds above thankfully. Hope you have a nice night indoors planned Mist, stay safe!

Princess

16:17 / 18.01.07

Aberystwyth has no weather.

None.At.All.

It's like living in a bubble-dome.

Axolotl

16:19 / 18.01.07

It snowed quite a lot in Glasgow this morning. My colleagues from the 'burbs tell of proper snow with it settling and everything, but where I am it just melted on contact with the filthy city centre, just like a kid from the country's dreams of making it big.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:32 / 18.01.07

Still not proper wind like you get elsewhere, but there're trees and stuff down everywhere I go today.

Mistoffelees

17:17 / 18.01.07

Hope you have a nice night indoors planned Mist, stay safe!

Thank you! Yes, I won´t do more outdoors than peek outside the window tonight.

Jake, Colossus of Clout

17:26 / 18.01.07

We've had a nice bit of accumulation here in Maine over the past few days, and it finally got really really cold, too. The winters recently have been sad, and while this isn't exactly a vintage Maine "shovel out over your head" winter, it's a start.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:30 / 24.01.07

IT'S FUCKING SNOWING IN LONDON!!!

I don't care that it's 4:30 in the morning, I just got back from walking Sheena. We never got any snow at all last year, so it's the first time she's seen it.

It was strange. There's something utterly magical about walking around in falling snow listening to Current 93... simultaneously there's nothing funnier than a little dog who's never seen snow before.

Snow!

FUCKING SNOW!!!

Dutch

05:33 / 24.01.07

Can I get a "Woohooo!" ?

Finally, the winter shows itself, it was beginning to feel like fall would last until spring.

Evil Scientist

06:37 / 24.01.07

Snow, bah!

It's just dry water.

Okay, okay! It looks rather pretty in Surrey this morning. The field across from the lab is a Christmas card scene come to life.

The roads are lethal though, I have a feeling they weren't gritted so getting home tonight shall be more like extreme sports than a pleasant spin in the jallopy.

Tryphena Absent

07:20 / 24.01.07

I CAN'T GET TO WORK! A train broke and now I can't get to work. I ate bacon before work this morning. Huzzah! I'm wearing pyjamas!

Benny the Ball

07:41 / 24.01.07

Stoatie's post has made me incredibly happy - SNOW! My van looks whiter than ever!!!!

Jub

07:47 / 24.01.07

Snow made me fall on my arse this morning. Not happy.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:00 / 24.01.07

Even after all these years on Barbelith I'm still, deep down, a guileless Northern lad who is no match for the sharp wits of you London types.

But do you wax, Sax?

Another couple of inches.

I ain't sayin'. I'm just sayin'.

08:08 / 24.01.07

There were peach sheets on the line next door this morning, with each sag filled up with snow. Them and the children's toys are the only colours outside.
I am now at work wearing a small hat. It's not that cold in the office, but it's fun. Also, just as one cannot hug with nuclear arms, one cannot type with furry mittens.

Quantum

08:50 / 24.01.07

Nina has a snow day- bah, I am at work having walked through the snow. Most gallingly, I was scoffing at someone just yesterday who said it would snow- 'It never snows in Brighton' I said.
Interestingly, last night my partner dreamt she turned over a tarot card and it was snowing in the picture, then we woke up to what looked like Christmas. Weird.

Kit-Cat Club

08:54 / 24.01.07

It's melting here. Boo!

Spaniel

09:07 / 24.01.07

Well, it never snows a lot in Brighton, Quants, so I think you're mainly right. Go tell 'em, and then punch them for disagreeing with you.

I would.

Anyway, as much as I love the snow, I do not love taking two and a half hours to get to work. I only live four or five miles away from my office ferfucksake, and AND I live in a bloody city, with buses and trains and everything.

Should've bloody walked. All the way, I mean. I did walk about a third of the way as it is.

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

09:10 / 24.01.07

Get a bike you lazy bastardo! x

RichT's boring old name

09:59 / 24.01.07

managed to be 30mins late for work this morning... and first in

Whisky Priestess

10:01 / 24.01.07

Xoc

Only one thing better than Beddy Bears -

Beddy Bunnies! (and ducks, and cows, and puppies ...)

Spaniel

11:10 / 24.01.07

Lazy, moi?

I did say I should've walked in. In the snow, in which it takes twice as much energy. And I would've had I known how fucked everything was going to be.

I am brave, I tell you. Brave.

Haloquin

11:22 / 24.01.07

'Tis strange, inches of snow here last winter... and April! But today, no snow

yesterday Wales had the first snowflake thick layer of snow for Britain, but today the sun shines through bitter cold, and no pretty white... numb noses though, must get me a bunny!

Mono

07:10 / 08.02.07

Yay! This is super snowy for London...

There are kids in the primary school across the street going mental and throwing massive snowballs at each other.

But I'm flying to Ireland tonight and am a bit worried about the traffic to the airport at 6.30-7ish. Barbelith, should we just forget about the money we pre-paid for parking and take the train? You decide!

Benny the Ball

07:44 / 08.02.07

that's a lot of faith in the trains you've got there....

doozy floop

07:51 / 08.02.07

Quite - most of the train lines seem ok, but they are prone to rapid collapse, especially as it's **still snowing** (unheard of, shurely) so things could conceivably get more messy rather than improve as the day goes on. Then again, the same's probably true of the traffic and the roads....

This is the kind of decision that explains to me why I still bite my nails.

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