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I really didn't expect snow this morning. Left the house extra early to take photos, trains were running so late they'd gone out the other side and were running on time again, narrowly missed by snowball lobbed by builder across Lincoln's Inn Fields. Wonderful.

Then I got into work and realised our heating was on the blink. Let's talk about snow again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/snowy.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

there's some kind of golden rule that says that corporate heating has to go wrong on the coldest day of the year.

I'm suffering from insomnia right now (possibly as a side effect of taking prozac) and so I had a sneak preview of the snow by being awake at 2, 3, and 4 o'clock, which seemed bizarre in itself, as if I was somehow spoiling the surprise.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

I also really didn't expect snow this morning, despite it being midwinter in northern Europe and snow today having been forecast for the best part of a month.

Neither, it would seem, did the gritters of Lambeth Council.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

or the gritters of Oxford City Council, if indeed they exist.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

m.g. that pic is fantastic.

― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, such fun memories of inching and picking my way along the uphill and downhill ice rink from Binsey Lane to Gloucester Green of a winter's morning. Such is the consequence of having three rivers at one's doorstep.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Gritters in full effect around here. Why doesn't it surprise me that Marcello's gritters were not out? It's like they're taunting him with his taxes... ;)

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

...starr'd the sides of outbuildings...

What a fcking great way to start a book.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

I whipped a few at some white vans. There's always a split second panic when the brake lights come on, but they rarely stop. Cowards.

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

SNOW!!! So exciting. Totally unexpected for me too, I haven't really been paying attention to the forecast but assumed all this talk of the cold white flakey stuff was just for folk up in Scotland, and maybe t'north.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ta, pic was 08:00 this morning. Never seen two kids get dressed/ready as quick!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

Where does the South get this strange idea that somehow they're immune to snow...or at least the Home Counties, since East Anglia and Kent routinely get drubbings?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

I did some great sideways snow-riding down the hill on my bike this morning. Sadly all the snow on the main roads has already turned to slush and that wasn't quite so much fun to ride through.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

you are all making me very jealous. where do you all live?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Out my window at silly o'clock this morning:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/367826474_7fb7d51cc1.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

About 3" in SW London. Had a great snowball fight with neighbours earlier!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Where does the South get this strange idea that somehow they're immune to snow

Well I remember those idyllic days of snow every winter, and crowding round the radio waiting to hear if our school was closed. But that was over 20 years ago and ever since then the routine has almost uniformly been boring mild snowless winters.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

The snow in Streatham was really a dusting rather than a carpet (when you get a really thick fall on my road you can practically ski down it, since it's on a fairly steep incline) and generally it seems to be melting away already (which actually is a good thing, since second-day ice rink isn't so fun though passers-by might snatch a giggle from my involuntary George Chakiris-style twirls and spins which invariably ensue...).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

i do like the look of sodium streetlights reflecting up off the snow.

am about a mile from the Blue Peter garden so when i saw carol in the snow this morning before even getting out of bed i kinda knew what was in store.

haven't had the heating on so far this season but i've a feeling that might have to change.

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in the east midlands where there was snow all around although like Marcellos its rapidly melting away.

Mark, I had the same thing with the kids - the usual struggle to get their coats on, finish their breakfast, etc all forgotten 'cos SNOW!!!

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

'i do like the look of sodium streetlights reflecting up off the snow.'

And me...I tried to take one last night...but it didn't come out too good!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/367423576_d06597ffaf.jpg?v=1169594833

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Saw a snowball ambush in wait in the passage between McDonalds and Sainsbury's on Mitcham Road. They were too excited to be very good ambushers, they kept poking their heads out and yelling at each other, "No, no, HIDE, they're COMING".

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

No, that pic works totally! (xpost obv)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

am about a mile from the Blue Peter garden so when i saw carol in the snow this morning before even getting out of bed i kinda knew what was in store.

i don't understand... is blue peter on in the mornings now? or do you have some kind of carol-cam?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

the weather on bbc breakfast usually features some luckless woman (Carol this morning) stood in the rain / snow / wind in the BP garden.

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

ha, great picture.

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

It was so light in garden last night it was weird. I took (ANOTHER) photo looking over next doors kitchen at the weird light emanating from the combination of snow and street lighting. This is at just past midnight.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/367880382_3c0f5fea16.jpg?v=0

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know why I had to tell you it was 'next doors kitchen'...

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/captainzep/367875789/

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/captainzep/367878479/

Lloyd Park, Walthamstow

(more here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/captainzep/ )

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Bollocks. Don't know why that didn't work. Here's smaller versions:

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=367878479&size=s

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=367875789&size=s

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

OK - that didn't work either. Any mods around feel free to delete this post, and the one before, but not the one before that.

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, it's melting already, the trees outside my window have almost entirely lost the white dusting that was on their branches.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Right click on the picture, get the .jpg address, do the i bobbins...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

(if you go to All Sizes in Flickr and pick the one you want it gives you the html to cut and paste at the bottom. just copy it into the ilx message box. the 'i' thing is broken.)

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/367875789_c3a8e68a9d.jpg?v=0

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Not mine you understand - Sir tehrences - not such a nice shot deserves to be seen.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

And here's the other one
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/367878479_4851f0ea4b.jpg?v=0

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

And for future reference you can do this...
(img src="www/jpg")
But with < instead of (.
With thanks to ailsa who told me!

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Not mine you understand - Sir tehrences - not such a nice shot deserves to be seen.

-- Edward Trifle (themanwhowouldbenedtrifl...), January 24th, 2007.

Oooops - should be SUCH a nice shot deserves to be seen - don't know where the 'not' came from!

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

these pics are all so beautiful. alas, we don't have that much snow here.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

shame, when I was in Brussels in Feb '04 there was lots of snow. I remember walking around the Botanic Gardens and saw the most organised snowball fight ever! Loads of kids had BUILT FORTS out of the snow and a gang of them were transporting about a hundred snowballs across the park piled up on a big flat piece of wood.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

The mister took a quick snapshot at about midnight:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/367463558_3304659ea9.jpg

(Also in East Mids)

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

The backgarden
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/367909680_baa14243fc.jpg

the view out front was more impressive
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/367909442_85b930a946.jpg

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

What am I doing stuck in an office? There are students outside sledging down the hill in canoes!

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/winter/activities/snowball/index.htm

http://www.inquiry.net/images/Copy_of_ABHB167.gif

The rules of warfare governing a snowball battle are as follows:

Sides are divided by Patrols. The defenders of the fort it being supposed that one-third behind fortifications are equal to two-thirds outside. One Patrol might defend the fort, while two Patrols can join forces to attack. The Patrol Leaders decide, by lot, the choice of position. Only the attacking party is allowed shields and ammunition sleds.

At least thirty yards from the fort a camp must be established by the outsiders or attacking army, and stakes driven at the four corners to locate the camp. Imaginary lines from stake to stake mark its limits. Each party will have its Patrol Flag which it carries with it in the assault. The defenders of the fort must see to it that all damages to the fortifications are promptly repaired.

Any soldier from the fort who shall be carried off within the limits of the camp becomes a prisoner of war, and cannot leave the camp until rescued by his own comrades.

Any one of the attacking force pulled into the fort becomes a prisoner of war, and must remain in the fort until it is captured. Prisoners of war cannot be made to fight against their own side, but they may be employed in making snowballs or repairing damages to fortifications. Any deserter recaptured must suffer the penalty of being made to work with the prisoners of war.

When the outsiders, or attacking army, can replace the enemy's colors with their battle-flag, the fort is captured and the battle is won by the attacking party; all fighting must then immediately cease.

But if, in a sally, or, by any means, the soldiers of the fort can take the colors of the opposite party from the camp and bring them inside their fortifications, they have not only successfully defended their fort, but have defeated the attacking army; and this ends the battle, with double honors to the brave defenders.

No water-soaked or icy snow-balls are allowed. No honorable boy uses them, and any one caught in the ungentlemanly act of throwing such "soakers" should be forever ruled out of the game.

No blows are allowed to be struck by the hand, or by anything but the regulation snowball, and, of course, no kicking is permitted.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

It is now approaching midday in London town and you'd never have known it had been snowing if you hadn't been there...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

As Pynchon himself writes...

The sleds are brought in and their runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back hall...

Oh, to spend the rest of the day reading but alas duty calls.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

NO MORE SNOW :-(

And I'm unemployed! This is weak!!!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

flights to Gothenberg are pretty cheap if you need a proper snow fix.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/303727516_37d72c498b.jpg?v=0

Last year!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I really must start reading Pynchon.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Have Comstock do it for you.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

there's some kind of golden rule that says that corporate heating has to go wrong on the coldest day of the year.

I think it's from the same rulebook which states that catering fridges pack in at the first sign of warm weather.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

flights to Gothenberg are pretty cheap if you need a proper snow fix.

Go by train!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I love snow, btw.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

My Swedish family is from Gothenberg

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Took this lot just after leaving the house, first thing this morning.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/368234479_36613eaf56.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/368234557_7b8fc9de01.jpg?v=0

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/368234568_9fc47b264d.jpg?v=0

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/368234596_634019f0a7.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/368234615_83779dd95c.jpg?v=0

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/368234682_203b94ceb0.jpg?v=0

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

i really hoped this would be an M&D thread.

― indian rope trick (bean), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

curse this snowless plight! we need to move north.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Shame I'll have to wait til November 5th to start 'A screaming comes across the sky'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I can't wait for my first snowball fight this winter.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

so tomorrow sounds like it's gonna be fun

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Those two inches will cause double the apocalypse that the one inch caused two weeks ago.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

hehe, yep prepare for complete shutdown tomorrow.

but i really hope i get snow, i never get snow. if it snows here it snows at 4am and is gone by the time i wake up. please snow here. thx

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I want snow early in the morning, so I can be really late for work and have a decent excuse. Then plz 2 melt, so I can get home doublequick.

― teh_kit never wins (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

More pressingly, plz 2 melt so I don't have to do comedy ice dance routine the following morning.

Big blankets of unmelted snow are lovely to walk through, though.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

lets fly an arc ourselves

― Friendly Tree (688), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

cycling is fun in snow! not on roads tho obv.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Arse, I have an 8am meeting tomorrow as well. Getting there is going to be fun.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yay I'm off tomorrow! Will stroll around and try and get some decent photos.

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

It's a bit rubbish, innit. Quarter of an inch so far in Mile End.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 8 February 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

Bit of a damp squib. Less snow than there was two weeks ago. Still snowing but none of it seems to be lying here in the Road of Fulham.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Plenty of snow in the midlands!

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

Punishment for Duran Duran and Toyah innit.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

There's much more snow than a fortnight ago.

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Much snow in Blackheath then there was a week ago and it's still coming down heavily in Holborn. Also, huge annoyance that my 8am didn't turn up because of the snow, despite me phoning her up and practically begging her to reschedule yesterday afternoon.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

I prefer to think of it as reward for Showaddywaddy and Kasabian...

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/383561500_aa7c5d031a.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/383561628_c34a1273f9.jpg

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

er, that didn't work quite as planned.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Why the fuck can't I post images any more?

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Two more:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/383561915_4d049a485d.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/383562341_1b0b6e3300.jpg

Then I decided it was far too cold and wet to be out and about.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

xp - your img tag seems to be empty...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

fucking gorgeous here

have just been out throwing snowballs at my own windows

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/08-02-07_0924edited.jpg

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

This is my snowman. I am 33 years old.

PS - the img scr thing doesn't seem to work for me at all, but the ihttp thing does

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

There's much more snow than a fortnight ago.

NOT IN STREATHAM THERE ISN'T

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/snow-1.jpg

Snow in the Midlands!

ihttp://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/snow.jpg

Reward for Dexy's and the Specials innit.

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

ihttp://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/snow.jpg

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

(odd failure) Have yet to venture out in it though.

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/snow.jpg

― DavidM* (unreal), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

wow

shame that it's cancelled the reunion i had planned, dude can't come up 'cos he's scared the train services will be curtailed during his brief stay.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Teh Hobb, it's img src rather than img scr, in case that's where you're going wrong?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's probably one of the ways in which I'm going wrong...

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Why did it have to snow the week I started temping? If I didn't have work today, I could have made snowmen in the garden :(

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/383903524_41a368bd7f.jpg

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

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