Right. I’m officially sick to the back teeth of snow. I mean, building snowmen, snowball fights and sledging are indeed endearing side effects of the current cold snap but quite frankly it’s gone on too long. I want a fucking inquiry into this.
Temperatures are so low that our central heating is overwhelmed and just can’t take the edge off the cold. Our central heating is no slouch either. Cast iron, school style radiators which pump out a ridiculous amount of heat and retain it for a considerable amount of time as well. As the first person up and into the shower every day, I am treated to the full blast of the barely heated air.
Add to that the fact that the TV and internet news channels are completely overflowing with footage of stranded planes and people kipping in their cars, interspersed with the odd snowman or Robin Redbreast for ‘light relief’. We get the point. It’s getting boring. You can’t go anywhere without slipping and sliding and nearly falling on your arse. As well as that, the bottom of my jeans are almost permanently sodden with icy water, so you can see how the whole thing starts to become old very quickly.
We’re not a snowy country. We’re a grey and miserable country. Let’s get back to the status quo.
By the way, mention Francis Rossi and you are dead. He’s even more tedious than three weeks of snow.
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 1:34 am
By contrast I am burning up here in sunny Doha,Qatar. 26 degrees , ambling round the Souk with me shorts and shades, drinking coffee and drawing on the shisha pipe.
Having just returned from watching Federer and Nadal in the Qatar masters tennis (you may have seen me on uk television (other have)….I am thinking whats to come home for.
With Qatar being a dry state i.e. no alcohol (apart from the 5 star hotels), is it worth braving the cold & misery for a pint of Tennents and packet of salt n’snake crisps ( thats if all the packets of salt havent already been pinched by Lothian Regional council).
Ah decisions , desicions…………….