Boris cries 'Enough!'

Obviously the Mayor of London has delusions of grandeur, bordering on regal disdain for reality as he appeared on telly in a Canute type fashion and said yes Nature, very pretty, but can you stop now.

I don't know. London is at a standstill thanks to 8 inches of snow. Admittedly it's the worst snowfall they've seen in 18 years and they have limited ploughing facilities as a result, but no buses were running, limited rail transport and airports closed.

We have snow already and more to come apparently this evening in greater amounts: half a metre was mentioned. Now that's more disruptive. Anyway, school has been closed this afternoon - unprecedented under this regime. The sun is out now of course, but some of the flurries this morning were really heavy and from the East, which is unusual. More later. Meanwhile here's the BBC link which is based in the South East of England so naturally has shots of fairly piddling amounts but lack of knowledge about coping means it's treated like The Great Frost of 1660 something. Now that was real cold. Boris Johnson, be grateful you weren't Mayor then.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7864553.stm

Boris cries 'Enough!'

Obviously the Mayor of London has delusions of grandeur, bordering on regal disdain for reality as he appeared on telly in a Canute type fashion and said yes Nature, very pretty, but can you stop now.

I don't know. London is at a standstill thanks to 8 inches of snow. Admittedly it's the worst snowfall they've seen in 18 years and they have limited ploughing facilities as a result, but no buses were running, limited rail transport and airports closed.

We have snow already and more to come apparently this evening in greater amounts: half a metre was mentioned. Now that's more disruptive. Anyway, school has been closed this afternoon - unprecedented under this regime. The sun is out now of course, but some of the flurries this morning were really heavy and from the East, which is unusual. More later. Meanwhile here's the BBC link which is based in the South East of England so naturally has shots of fairly piddling amounts but lack of knowledge about coping means it's treated like The Great Frost of 1660 something. Now that was real cold. Boris Johnson, be grateful you weren't Mayor then.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7864553.stm

What's in a name?

Transfer deadline day has arrived and in keeping with our transfer policy we have signed a player on loan from Manchester City purely on his name: Tal Ben Haim. This makes up for the sale of El Hadj Diouf who had to go after a fight in the dressing room where Anton Ferdinand apparently feared for his life. Diouf was sold the next day.

Disappointingly, we are also after a West Ham player who is only called Calum Davenport. Booooring!

The transfer deadline has been extended beyond 5 o'clock in certain circumstances because of the weather. Sun still out but there have been heavy flurries such as now.

What's in a name?

Transfer deadline day has arrived and in keeping with our transfer policy we have signed a player on loan from Manchester City purely on his name: Tal Ben Haim. This makes up for the sale of El Hadj Diouf who had to go after a fight in the dressing room where Anton Ferdinand apparently feared for his life. Diouf was sold the next day.

Disappointingly, we are also after a West Ham player who is only called Calum Davenport. Booooring!

The transfer deadline has been extended beyond 5 o'clock in certain circumstances because of the weather. Sun still out but there have been heavy flurries such as now.

Yikes! Spamming you with more trivia.

Snowing a blizzard now, with wind swirling it round. It's been going for two hours non-stop on top of what we already had. A gritter just went up the hill, so they're trying to keep the roads open, but the wind will put paid to that. What a good job I broke my ankle. Now I don't have to worry about digging out to get to work tomorrow.  If it keeps up, it could be at least a foot. It's certainly half way up the garden wall over the road. Heeee!

Of course, nobody's been able to call to see me today but (fingers crossed) I still have heat and light and dinner is in the oven. Of course, when I have it all planned I discover I have no baked beans. How did that happen? I always have tins of beans. I have to open a tin of peas instead. *pout*

Yikes! Spamming you with more trivia.

Snowing a blizzard now, with wind swirling it round. It's been going for two hours non-stop on top of what we already had. A gritter just went up the hill, so they're trying to keep the roads open, but the wind will put paid to that. What a good job I broke my ankle. Now I don't have to worry about digging out to get to work tomorrow.  If it keeps up, it could be at least a foot. It's certainly half way up the garden wall over the road. Heeee!

Of course, nobody's been able to call to see me today but (fingers crossed) I still have heat and light and dinner is in the oven. Of course, when I have it all planned I discover I have no baked beans. How did that happen? I always have tins of beans. I have to open a tin of peas instead. *pout*