Archive for February 5th, 2009

This will be last post I promise - I bet everyone’s really tired of all us Londoners going gaga over a little fall :-D It bears remembering though, that this is only the second time in my life that I have seen this much snow. The first was 12 years ago when I spent a winter in Germany.

I did make a snowman - my first ever (apart from the sleet-and-slush-man that I built with my brother once when we were little). And learned a little bit about packing snow (it’s harder than you think to get it even) and freezing fingers. I tried a snowball later on with mittens on and the snow stuck to my mittens in a big way - what’s the secret??

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Windowsill-snow-dude wanted to go out and play with the other snowmen, but I wouldn’t let him because he was too little and only had a scrappy yarn scarf to keep him warm. So he got cross at me and melted in the kitchen :-(

I ventured out on Tuesday and learned that a) gritted snow is safe, and very satisfyingly crunchy to walk on, b) slush is slippery and icky, c) hard-packed footpath snow with no grit is to be avoided at all costs, even if it means walking in the foot-deep roadside drifts and d) wearing gloves with mittens over the top is the only way to survive!

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I took this picture sometime on Monday I think - the snow was absolutely chucking it down - hard to capture on camera as it was moving so fast, but I think you can tell. You can see how thick the snow is where it’s been scraped off the top of the car. Incidentally, during this particular flurry, our immigrant was out meeting real estate agents and looking at flats. Ugh! He did admit that, in general, he preferred -2 degrees to 40 degrees if it came to a choice.

Today it’s raining and the snow is almost a thing of the past. They were forecasting more for the weekend but I think they’ve changed their minds - it’s not cold enough any more. So no more snow days, and the trains are (mostly) running again!

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