Just to emphasise what I said about lack of preparation for a little snow and ice, it seems that to the east of London car commuters yesterday evening took up to 12 hours to complete what would normally have been a one hour drive. Allowing for journalistic licence I daresay only one of them actually took *that long. Also, once out of urban London, the Underground system is mostly above ground and many of those stretches were out of action trapping trains and causing hours of delay.
It was minus 3 degree C when I left home at 06.15 today with wind chill taking it down to about minus six apparently. Not too bad, but cold for this country. London is about the same latitude as Newfoundland if I remember (must check again!) people forget that. The only thing that saves us is the Gulf Stream. Oh well, it should thaw out today. The sun is out shining on the snow – it all looks very pretty.
