lets talk about....

Yeah kind of hard writing hard core stuff when you just spent the day watchin Dora the Explorer with my 4 year old...

 

haha, you should turn her on to metalocalypse

 

Musical Question:
Any one play Ukulele

 

Hello everyone!

That's all. Just fancied saying hello to all you lovely people

 

hello to you too!

I've been off the past day and a half because of the snow... i made an igloo , i'll pos the pics later!

 

Lol don't get me started on UK and snow again I emailed Radio 4 about it today; thought I was gonna explode so had to vent it somewhere haha I is teh looooserrr

 

I want to talk about the snow in England I originate from the south-west, I don't live in England anymore, is it really that bad? I'm sure it's unusual for England, and particularly the south-west if I heard that right, but I'm finding it hard to believe that it's really that extreme!

 

Sorry amybird obviously I was writing while you posted. I want to know anyway!!

 

well im in east anglia, and its at least 10-15 cm on most of the fields

 

I heard up to 30cm in swiss radio today, but that was near to my home town Exeter which they actually mentioned! Wow Exeter's famous... Sorry it's not everyday I hear anything about Exeter on the radio here.

 

It's not extreme at all. What's extreme is Britain's complete lack of ability to deal with it

 

Yep that's exactly how I understood it. It seems very funny now living here in Germany. I guess it's just cause they don't get it very often so they're not very prepared when it does happen.

 

thing is why would we be prepared when its not a common occurance? you cant plan for every eventuality, its a false economy, most of the stories ont he news are because of people not listening to advice and not using common sense

 

It's not unexpected. Most of the time it's forecast and it happens every single year. How does a one-off investment in the proper equipment needed to deal with snow not immediately get balanced by just saving even a single day of proper functioning of a country? Let alone a week or so. Exactly how many consecutive days of hundreds of schools being closed, infrastructural chaos and inability of businesses to function properly would it take for Britain to do something?

How in the world can anyone with any brain have thought that a scattering of salt would have been any help underneath 8+ inches of snowfall?
Britain never ever commits to just doing something properly, investing in something and planning more than a few weeks ahead, risking having to possibly actually adapt or change in some way. Always so proud of how they 'manage' and 'pull together' in some amazingly British way, but never able to show the same commitment to permanently changing something for the better.

As I speak, there are about 8 or so inches of snow on the ground which fell last night, and it's falling heavily still as I speak, and the only difference it's going to make is that more people will have boots on and in about another hour every Norwegian will be in their drive shovelling snow.

Blaaah. I get so frustrated with Britain not doing things completely. Where's the pragmatism?
You know??

 

Well said Amy
It's one of the reasons why I never have and most likly never will call my self British...

Bleh!!!!

 

WELCOME to the machine

 

I Am A Machine

 

Here are some snowy pics I just took outside my house

Edge of my drive and garden


End of my street - the snow-plough just missed it!


The drive after a lot of shovelling this morning


From my backdoor


Yay!

 

Yay the snow plough just came down our street




Sorted

Now why can't all U.K. farmers in snow-prone areas just have one of these fixtures for their tractors? It doesn't involve "maintaining vast fleets" of snow ploughig machines, as I heard some arse-head politition claim on the radio yesterday. Tuh

 

chances are farmers do have snow ploughs - for their farms.