“How can you not have insurance?”
“Because I spent my money on the Clapco D29, the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw, the door must be closed!”
London is a winter wonderland
Londoners awoke this morning to a scene which they haven’t seen here for quite a while. Overnight, parts of London and the South East received up to 6in of snow, the best dump of snow recorded for 18 years. Even grittier parts of London looked pretty under the blanket of fresh white powder.
Understandably, transport in the city has been affected, especially buses which have been taken out of service;
In the London and the South East, we are just not expecting snowfall like this and so we don’t tend to go to the lengths that other countries, or parts of the UK, do to prepare for it. Rarely are vehicles fitted with winter tyres or snowchains, in some European countries these are compulsory. I don’t know whether TFL owns any snowploughs. Even with a very small amount of snow on the ground, normal summer tyres are very ineffective, and spreading salt isn’t really going to help against this much snow.
But despite a small amount of inconvenience to transport users, the snow has contributed enormously to this Monday morning, giving people an instant change of scenery, and lots to talk about in the office. It has afforded people wonderful opportunites; to throw snowballs at each other, build snowmen, to go tobogganing, to see London by foot as a beautiful winter scene, and of course the most important; a great excuse to turn up late for work (or not at all) after participating in any of the aforementioned activities.
Bring on more ‘Global Warming’! Now where’s my toboggan?
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