Weather

[lizwilliams]

My plan to stay in bed and eat cake all day due to being snowed in has been somewhat bollocksed by the fact that we have, er, no snow. Not even a little bit. Just some rain, and then sunshine. T thinks we ought to pretend that there's a blizzard raging outside.

However, I now have to go out and use up a free car-wash ticket, which expires today. I'll imagine driving very carefully, with chains.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

T thinks we ought to pretend that there's a blizzard raging outside.

I'm with T., exactly when imagination comes in handy. Enjoy your cake when the car's clean.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Clean car = snow. Slushy/mucky/muddy.

Do they spread salt or sand on your roads?

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Both. But it always takes the British by surprise. We've only had snow every winter for the last 3000 years.

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

So what do you think the people at the bakery would say if you returned the cake with the explanation that it failed to produce snow...? *hee*

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I imagine there would be a snappy retort! We actually got the cake from the Post Office in Meare, which advertises itself as: Not Mearely A Post Office!

Indeed, it is not - they sell a vast range of things, including arborio rice, and one's postal enquiries are sometimes diverted by the cat rushing in through the PO window with a mouse in its mouth.

[lisamantchev.livejournal.com]

We actually have a post office like that right down the road. Last time I was there, I got handmade soap, a wooden spoon and a cast iron skillet heavy enough to use as a weapon.

And I ALMOST bought sen-sen. *should go back and get some, just to see what it tastes like*

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

All the best skillets could stun a burglar...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

We had snow - until about an hour ago. They closed the office - which was perhaps a bit of an over-reaction, but I'm not complaining.

No cake though - maybe there will be cake tomorrow.

[sawyl.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, after a particularly heavy snowfall had been forecast, our Chief Executive announced that everyone could go home early to avoid the worst of the weather. When the snow failed to materialise, the subsequent embarrassment was made all the more acute by fact that it was the Met Office that had given such duff advice to its own employees...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Oh. dearie. me.

That is really bad. But made me laugh a lot!

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

no snow. Not even a little bit. Just some rain,

Ditto, though we did have some exciting hail mixed in with the rain around 3ish :-)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I think we just had the hail. Either that or the neighbours are throwing rocks again.