....just thank god that you're not in Norway. My mate who lives there sent me this picture this morning. That thing you can see poking out of the snow is the top of his chin-high fence
always someone worse than us, saying that when people say how the country comes to gridlock after 2" of snow they never remember we don't get it much down south so they are never used to the snow or drivers Where as I was amazed how well they drive in Finland when I was over there a few years ago in Dec
You see, this used to be the advantage of being British. God looked after us. We didn't have earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, or any natural disasters of any real consequence. A couple of inches of snow every Christmas eve, gone by boxing day, a bit of a flood now and then to cull off the Myxomatosis ridden rabbits and good old coal gas tar laden fogs, nature's organic expectorant, perfect for smoothing the hacking up of a lifetime of Woodbines. But now we're all European. We're all multicultural. Now we have to have foreign disasters. Biblical floods, typhoons, the wrong kind of snow that we, the British, the chosen people, have not evolved to cope with. That's the very reason we used to own a quarter of the world. It was no coincidence that these far flung places suffered from the worse conditions the climate could throw at them. No, it was so that the British people could visit them without barriers during such inundations, wonder that such places could exist and photograph real dramatic landscapes that didn't need to be HDR'd afterwards to look good. And most of all it gave us a huge workforce of pre trained and conditioned labourers, bred by generations to deal with cataclysms of nature that we could ship into Blighty should god ever forsake us, his favoured children. But not now. We gave the empire back and went all continental and that upset him, so now we have to close runways when it's slippy, despite them being dead straight, a mile long and 50 yards wide with nothing coming the opposite direction and sweep tiny leaves off railway lines before 500 ton trains drive over them and come to a complete stop. Think about it people.
LOL!!! I do think about it all the time, Ken. It's amazing how far we've fallen in such a short space of time. We used to make things.....good things...and now we don't anymore. I saw a documentary the other week about the building of the M1. It said that they built that at around the rate of miles / day that the Chinese are just matching now. And that was back in the 50s and 60s. I know it shouldn't but it irks me that people get paid fortunes for shuffling money around within the UK and people who still manufacture and export don't seem to get any kudos for it. Take my brother for instance. He's a music teacher who teaches posh kids how to play the piano. A valuable thing to learn, no doubt, but he earns a pigging fortune because the loaded mummies and daddies (who doubtless work in recruitment or have a business expensive frocks to other monied types) want little Jacinta or Jack to learn how to play Für Elise. I reckon I earn less and I'm responsible for quite a lot of export sales per year which employs blokes in a factory full of metal and oil and swarf. We're doomed, I tell ya........dooooomed!!
The weather god` s must have been smiling on us this week,because the met office said "The Beast for the East" was going to hit us with -15.Fortunately it missed us.Only -4 this morning.
