Snow
  • Siolae

    Is it on its way?  It makes everything so pretty.

  • andy

    It's apparently an incredible year in the Alps. Huge amounts of snow

  • Ali

    Not here

  • boxrunner

    Don't know about snow, but apparently it's set to get a lot colder over the next week or so.

  • Detritus

    I know very little about snow so decided to quote Bing Crosby.

    Snow
    It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow
    Snow
    I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow

    Snow
    I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow
    Snow
    Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow

    Where it's snowing
    All winter through
    That's where I want to be
    Snowball throwing
    That's what I'll do
    How I'm longing to ski
    Through the snow-oh-oh-oh-oh

    Those glist'ning houses that seem to be built of snow
    Snow
    Oh, to see a mountain covered with a quilt of snow

    What is Christmas with no snow
    No white Christmas with no snow
    Snow

    I'll soon be there with snow
    I'll wash my hair with snow
    And with a spade of snow
    I'll build a man that's made of snow
    I'd love to stay up with you but I recommend a little shuteye
    Go to sleep
    And dream
    Of snow

  • boxrunner

    :-)

  • ADGS

    There's a small patch of what looks like remaindered snow outside Pappagone, but I think it's just frozen street-cleaning water.

  • gardener-joe

    This afternoon, the finest of a fine dusting of snow was evident in crevices and against raised edges on the platforms at Crouch Hill and Upper Holloway stations.

  • ArkadyArkady

    It begins.

  • checkski

    OMG. So it does. I'm dreading it. To think I used to be thrilled to bits by the first snow, way back in the 50's.

  • ArkadyArkady

    I still love it, at least for the first few days while it remains white and crisp.

    It's only been coming down for 20 minutes and it's already properly sticking.

    I walked along the Regents Canal at King's Cross for a bit earlier, and it was frozen over 1cm thick.  The resident swan was looking really pissed off.  This pleased me, as it has attacked me in the past without provocation - quite alarming when you're trapped on a towpath - I had to kick it in the head to make it back down.   Some of the other birds were skidding on the ice, which was quite funny.

  • ChangN4N6

    After two days the lingering stinky smells of Lorne Rd have gone - must be the frost and now snow deep freezing the cause (which council fail to find) So the big freeze is welcome with us . Hope the effects last til spring!! Chang

  • harpistic

    I just noticed that the snow only seems to be settling on the Islington side of SGR. The Haringey pavements remain untouched by snow - that's some grit they're using!

  • Marquis

    *

  • Stella

    My friend and I went for a walk in Finsbury Park the afternoon, then spent three hours dining and chatting in the Old Dairy, when we left we couldn't believe our eyes...

  • miss annie

    This happened last year too, a thick blanket of snow fell in just a couple of hours. Detritus is sitting out in the garden marvelling at it right now.

  • Stella

    Detritus seems like a weird man. ;-)


    Edited to explain: I spent the first 16 years of my life going on ski holidays in Austria. I'm done with snow. I crave sun. But I have to admit it's rather pretty and much better than rain. Still, I'd like to have 20 degrees and sunshine now, rather than snow.

  • miss annie

    Weird doesn't begin to cover it Stella.

  • Stella

    I like weird.

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    I remain deeply disturbed by @ChangN4N6's strange olfactory fantasies, that have now taken a meteorological turn. 

  • ArkadyArkady

    Krappy accused me in the street of being Chang the other day.  The cheek.

  • ChangN4N6

    Oh. Who are you 2? And I dont work in a factory I am a vet (now part time, tho it feels like a production line, snip snip). LOL. If you know Joyce (you probably do from the Sir Walter as she calls it) she can introduce us. Chang.

    PsThe snow is melting a bit and I saw a fox earlier in Lorne Road round the bins . Chang

  • Misscara

    Just in case anyone uses the W5 I thought it worth mentioning that it's all messed up with the snow. I've used it twice today and it strayed from the usual route, in both directions. It also doesn't seem to be doing the Haringay station detour which pisses me off as that means I only get one chance of catching it. It also didn't start til gone 9.30am today so bear this in mind if it snows again.

  • miss annie

    It always does that when it snows. The W7 is usually up the creek when there's snow or ice too as it can't get up the hill.

  • dorothy

    I got the W7 this morning, did some good skidding on the brow of the hill.

  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif

    My private Stroud Green Charles Dickens Appreciation Society held its 200th birthday annual dinner last night (the actual anniversary is Tuesday) and it broke up around 1.30am in truly Dickensian style - several people had to walk long distances home through the snow.  In one case to well beyond Muswell Hill.   Not a bus or cab to be found - it seems like the W7 gave up at the first snowflake.

    Apparently the streets were full of snowballing yokels, even at 2.30am.    What larks!

  • Misscara

    I had to walk back from far end of Highgate. Was a frozen soggy mess when I arrived home at 2.30am. I did see one girl struggling along St John's Way in stiletto strappy sandals, mini skirt and no coat.

  • miss annie

    Ooo, that's what they do in The North.

  • vetski

    And in quite a lot of ski resorts...You know you're getting old when your first thought is 'She'll catch her death'!

    People were still scraping snow off our car for snowballs at 3.30am - noisy twits.

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