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SNOW!

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Princess

08:03 / 08.02.07

Holy God! Aberystwyth has snow! The uni has had to close. Thank you Zombie Jesus!

Katherine

08:10 / 08.02.07

Snow loads of it here.... in fact eight inches of the white stuff. The cat is fairly disgusted with the whole idea but as I find it very difficult to get into work I'm at home so therefore I'm keen on it.

I could walk in, it would only take two hours but given in my attempt at 6.45am this morning left me with ice frozen to my hair I don't think I'll worry about it.

Strangely the M25 is clear of snow around this part.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

08:13 / 08.02.07

Mono - you should probably forget the train in this kind of snow. A few flakes, and, well, you know, rails become impassable.

Maybe drive to the airport, but slower? You can't miss the tour!

Abney Park cemetery looks great in the heavy snow, which is up to 10cm deep in some parts. Sachabelle loved playing with other dogs in it, though Sheena wasn't out yet.

Spaniel

08:26 / 08.02.07

A ever the snow in Brighton is next to non-existant.

Tres shit.

Benny the Ball

08:30 / 08.02.07

It's still going in London, like some Dickensian dreamscape.

Olulabelle

08:35 / 08.02.07

Here they've closed all the schools. We were supposed to go to a big jewellery tradeshow today wh ich we can't get to now but I don't care because now we're eating potato farls for breakfast and then we're going outside to make a big snowman. I let the dog out this morning and he trotted out as usual and then stopped short looking all shocked. I've never seen a dog look shocked. I might see what the parrots do in a minute.

It's still snowing and we've got about four inches so far. Yay!

Spaniel

08:40 / 08.02.07

BASTARDS!

Closed for Business Time

08:56 / 08.02.07

The B-Boss has got it right! Bastard snow! It won't stay for longer than necessary to make life a slippery wet hell anyway. Grumble... STOP FUCKING SNOWING!

Closed for Business Time

09:06 / 08.02.07

Plus I have to add - I couldn't help but laugh when I read on the beeb website that "up to 9 cm of snow had fallen, reaching 15 cm on hilltops"... Get over it! Come back and complain when you get 15 centimeters in 2 hours. You lads and ladettes from the States, Canada and Central Europe (or anywhere with proper amounts of snow) will know what I'm talking about.

LIVERPOOL! IT SNOW!!

Hee hee. I've got today off work. I BUILDING A SNOW MAN.

No, no, I shall build a real man...out of snow!

Spaniel

09:18 / 08.02.07

No, Los, snow good.

I am jealousy and rage

Triplets

09:20 / 08.02.07

I shall build a real man...out of snow!

Same here. I shall send my snowculus. Not to do battle you understand, that would suggest a chance of failiure.

I send him to collect your frozen corpse!

Squirmelia

09:22 / 08.02.07

Barely any snow in Southampton.

Django-Ignatius Durango, did you take any photos of Abney Park?

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

09:24 / 08.02.07

This morning I was woken up at 7am by my flatmate, who dragged me outside to make a huge SNOWMAN. Fucking wicked! It's still snowing here in North London, so I'm gonna have to make another one on Hampstead Heath at lunchtime. Snow rules more than you. FACT!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:25 / 08.02.07

Pooh, 11:24 and it's finally petered out. Let's hope it starts again or else I'm facing having to work until 8:00 pm tonight!

Closed for Business Time

09:57 / 08.02.07

No, snow bad, B'boss. As I said, the bloody mess it'll leave behind isn't worth it. In two hours it'll be puddle hell, and then, when the sun sets, the icing over starts. Best put on your skates, mates!

Mon Oncle Ignatius

10:43 / 08.02.07

did you take any photos of Abney Park?

I did, and will post some here soon.

Hydra vs Leviathan

10:51 / 08.02.07

Fucking hell, Birmingham's covered in it, and it still seems to be falling, at least lightly...

Snow isn't fun when you have a hypersensitivity to cold that means that, if it's cold enough to snow, you know that if you dare venture out of the house at all, your face and any other exposed part of your body will be in extreme pain. Couple that with a need for a routine including at least a couple of miles of walking every day, and it's kind of impossible not to hate snow.

A lot of my friends who use wheelchairs or crutches or walk unsteadily will also probably be housebound or nearly housebound today.

Oh well, i can always stay in and read At The Mountains Of Madness...

Spaniel

11:01 / 08.02.07

Nat, that's rough so I'll let you off the hook.

Los on the other hand has clearly lost his inner child.

A child, lost in the snow.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:17 / 08.02.07

Click the picture for more of the cemetery in the snow.

Squirmelia

12:41 / 08.02.07

Ooh, that does look like quite a bit of snow! I am most jealous.

Triplets

12:44 / 08.02.07

There's only one thing wrong with having a bit of snow outside.

Somebody having more.

Grr!

Spaniel

12:48 / 08.02.07

Django, that's absolutely beautiful.

That, my friends, is why snow is good.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:49 / 08.02.07

Ooh, pretty!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:57 / 08.02.07

Just took Sheena and Charlie (my friend's dog, a big fuck-off Alsatian) up to the park, and it was absolutely fucking ace.

And yes, Abney Park is fucking brilliant right now.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

12:58 / 08.02.07

It was lovely taking the hound for a walk in the cemetery this morning. There were what I thought were kids when I heard voices from a distance squealing with delight, but when they got near, the joyous folk turned out to be adults, dragging a toboggan and having fun.

This being London, the snow is melting and turned quickly to black slush on the street outside though.

But that's what the cemetery is for - escaping the city, seeing robins at arm's length and hearing two different species of woodpeckers in the trees. I only wish I'd seen a fox, but it's highly unlikely in the daylight in there.

Triplets

13:02 / 08.02.07

Fat snow robin! Squeee!

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:03 / 08.02.07

That's pretty much what I thought!

Closed for Business Time

13:15 / 08.02.07

Oh, sorry to come off as such a party-pooper. I guess it was just my inner child venting his frustration at being so close to such a prime source of past joy and knowing very well that it wouldn't last and he wouldn't be let out of the cage cuz I had to go to bloody work!

Also, I guess I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to British snow - there's just not enough of it. Growing up, I saw at least a meter thick layer of snow every winter for a good 4 months, up to 3, even 4 meters when I visited grandparents up north. 'Tis pitiful, the frozen water that falls here. Beautiful, but pitiful.

Olulabelle

13:15 / 08.02.07

This morning we had a robin who flew up to the window and pointedly looked in so we went outside, brushed all the snow off the bird table and fed the birds mealworms and things. They all came and pigged out. I think the robin was the messenger.

Then we built a pair of GINORMOUS SNOW MEN! See how big they are:

They are so big.

It's still snowing here which I think is lovely (sorry nattyraja) and the children are not going to school tomorrow either, so more snow fun. In a minute we are going snowboarding up in the Lickey Hills.

Snowman smiling:

See the people in the background? They are building a snowfort ready for a massive battle. Snow makes everyone be seven again.

Closed for Business Time

13:19 / 08.02.07

Oh, forgot to say thanks to DID for his photos from Abney Park - the whole set is effin' ace! Thanks, mate! And that robin sure is tubby.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:24 / 08.02.07

Those snowmen look great, Lula.

LosMontes - there'll be more added to the set as I go along, I think. I took hundreds of 'em...

Quantum

13:33 / 08.02.07

I hate you all. No snow, I'm at work, boo.

Spaniel

13:35 / 08.02.07

Lula, your snowmen almost brought a tear to my eye.

Sentimentaltastic

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