A Front Just Blew In From Russia

[poliphilo]

I believe London is shut down this morning. No trains, no tube. At least that's what Ailz tells me. And she got it directly from Terry Wogan.
 
Up here, of course, in the hardy north, we don't let a little thing like this discourage us.

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[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Apparently there is a foot of snow in Guildford / winchester / Basingstoke etc. I flew out to Philly before it started.

Over in the US there are mini snow ploughs you can buy to bolt on to the front of a pick-up truck, and the hotel car parks and shopping mall streets get cleared that way. And there are guys who will come and clear your drive - the same people who cut your grass in the summer.

We just don't have that in the UK. But, everyone in my office can work from home using a Virtual Private Network if they have a broadband link, so why don't we work from home all the time?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I just went out and measured our snow with a ruler. It's four inches deep- and still falling.

It amuses me the way the country grinds to a halt every time this happens.