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Snow Day!

Check out the snow we’re getting here, and it’s still snowing! I haven’t seen this much snow in six years. While I don’t envy the folks back home all the cold and snow they get on a regular basis in the winter, it is nice to finally see some of it here!

Snowy Cars

Snowman in the front yard

Bins covered in snow

I might also mention that this amount of snow causes havoc over here. It’s difficult to cope in the South of England as they just simply aren’t prepared for this much snow. All of my trains were suspended this morning and buses also weren’t running so I have had the luxury of being able to work from home. As it’s still snowing here, it will be interesting to see how things are running tomorrow.

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Let it snow!

Just look at all the snow coming down here. One might be mistaken for thinking they’re in Pennsylvania right about now…

Snow from the back door.

I can only guess what my trains will be like tomorrow morning.

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Feels like home

We ran into a bit of foul weather on our way home from Dover today. I’ll write about Dover with pictures later, but wanted to first share with you the Arctic conditions we traveled home in. I kid you not, I’m quoting the radio when using the word “Arctic.”

Snow in April

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I knew it.

I spoke too soon. I did. Where was my sunshine when I woke up this morning? I don’t know – there was none to be had. Just rain. Downpours, not light mist, or anything at all like that. Downpours off and on all day. It’s hit the country pretty hard. In true British style though, nothing ever happens here without the trains going downhill. Oh yeah, didn’t I mention that my train was late this morning? Due to the rain, of course. What else?

And that’s the beginning of my Friday summary. Tonight I went with a friend to see the new Harry Potter movie. (I know, I’m shocked too – two movies in the same week!!) The movie was pretty good. I feel a bit left out though, I couldn’t remember much from this book. The movie however, didn’t seem to provide as much information this time around, though. Normally I think the movies are pretty true to the story, so I’m a tad disappointed. However, this wasn’t my favorite book of the series so I guess I’m not really that gutted.

As far as the new book goes, I’ll have mine on Monday evening. I was silly and used Paul’s work address as the mailing address. Anyway, by that time, Paul will have found all the spoilers online and told them to me. So I’m not sure there’ll be any point in reading the book at all!

Paul’s back tomorrow so you probably won’t hear much on the blog after that. You can tell that I have much more time in the evenings for this sort of thing when Paul’s not around. When he’s here we’re doing really important stuff like going to the gym or watching tv.

And now, I’m off to bed. When I next wake up, there’ll be an extra body back in the house, just cluttering it up with more laundry. All right, so I’ll be quite pleased to see him. I just hope he doesn’t sleep too much when he gets back. It’s boring here without him.

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Where was this weather…

…last week? Yes, I know I complain about the state of the weather here quite a bit. But, come on, we’re in England! As a friend of mine once said, “they call it London Fog for a reason, you know.” We’ve had some miserable weather this summer so far – usually it’s not so bad, it just seems a bit extreme this year.

So, the weather here has finally warmed up a bit. Not a lot, just a bit. It has warmed up just enough for me to optimistically ditch my usual black work trousers this week for much easier going skirts and sandals. I mean, it is nearing the end of July. I would expect we should get some warm weather this summer. I’m just trying to send out the right vibes…

What I would like to know though, is where was this semi-warm weather last week? Requiring a fleece on holiday in July is just a bit extreme. I would at least expect a person could wear short sleeves and maybe sandals. Oh well, at least I can do it this week. Who knows what we’ll get the next at the rate this is all going.

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