LONDON IS VERY, VERY COLD
Pavements are like icerinks...
... yes, this picture was taken in London ~ honest! (I'm a dishonest person...)
The outsized ferris wheel is called the London Eye... isn't it majestic?!?
This one really is London ~ wahey!
Merry Xmas to all you pagans out there!
(It IS, after all, a PRE-Christian festival...!)
PS and OH ... a Trotter Donkey in the snow...!
Come here QUICKLY for some snapshots of les vacances parisiennes/etc chez Bimbimbie!!
Cold here in Canada too ... -15c in Nova Scotia.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds ... love the trotter donkey. London looks gorgeous under it's snow blanket.
ReplyDeleteIt was the place de la Concorde, in front of the posh Hotel de Crillon where the traffic controller was working ... stay warm*!*
If only snow would limit itself to that adequate sprinkling. How cold is very cold to you there? I have found that cold is relative - if you have cold after it's been warm, it feels colder - if you are unaccustomed to cold, it's colder; if it's damp, it's colder; if it's windy, it's colder; if it's grey, it's colder. If I'm tired, or hungry, it's colder.
ReplyDeleteIt's been around -5C here which is cold (obviously) but not really cold for here - when your nostrils stick together, the snow squeaks and ice forms on the scarf around your mouth - then it's really cold. We don't get as many of those days here as even just 100 miles north which don't get as many as another 100 above that etc.
A very Merry & WARM Christmas to you, my dear friend!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm posting at my blog, I decided that I'd also answer your question here at your blog:
What I call KATZ are primarily LOL Cats that folks create and post to the website I Can Has Cheezburger. The site also features similar pics of other creatures, even a few roborovski hamsters! The pics that I post as KATZ also contain other photos that people send me. I do add captions to some photos that come without any words, including ones I've posted of Alex, who is proud of being a LOL Cat.
BTW, I learned a few days ago that my grandchildren now have a very small, miniature hamster that they love dearly. I must drop by their home soon and meet the little fellow.
I see you are also sitting in the snow ! We have - 11°C and 8 cm ! very unusual for Brussels, it happened since the Global Warming meeting in Copenhagen !
ReplyDeleteI wish you nice holidays we celebrate traditionally, but not religious it's nice to get gifts, lol !
There was near 2 feet of snow here at my brother's place in eastern PA. So how does London deal with snow? Poorly I bet.
ReplyDeleteHey was that a supersize horse box I saw in that video in your previous trotter donkey post? Was that really in the UK? Is it possible to fit a super-size horse box on your Roman Roads? Super-size horse boxes are very common in the States. So are super-size travel trailers. I believe you refer to them as caravans in the UK.
I did see one youtube video of a trotter donkey derby in Texas. I suspect trotter donkey derbies are held all over much to the dismay of the trotter donkeys. Can't say I've heard of any around my parts, but then I don't go looking for them either.
Stay warm Gledwood and merry Christmas to you.
We had about 6 inches of snow here oop north yesterday. :0
ReplyDeleteThat little donkey is really cute. There was about 20 inches of snow in Washington, DC. It was a wild weekend for weather over here.
ReplyDeleteWe got almost 2 FEET of snow on Saturday!!! Pictures on my page if you want to check them out! Scan down past the family drama and see what we had to deal with. It was real pretty at first, but no one can or wants to stay home so it gets chopped up and iced over and is just an ugly mess after a day or two.
ReplyDeleteStill, it was nice to have some snow before Christmas.
Hello! I wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas (since I'm not a pagan - smiles....)!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you're still blogging - I'm sorry to see that you've lost some of your darling little guys.
Our weather is cold when it's 50 degrees. We have horrible problems with valley fog and truck accidents (lorry?).
Anyway, I'm not dead and glad you aren't either!
~~~Blessings~~~
Does it snow very often in London? I had an impression it didn't.
ReplyDeleteWe're got rain, and its pouring outside just as I'm writing this. :)
I did a post on writing synopsis, its short and I hope it helps you.
Janice~
Where did you get these amazing pictures, beautiful and adorable and amazing?? I love them! It has just snowed significantly for the second time here in Chicago...pity I have just begun trudging out for last-minute gifts for everyone.
ReplyDeleteANONYMOUS DRIFTER: that IS cold... I'm sure it's barely minus one here. I haven't heard people complaining about the cold, actually, which I'm sure British people would ~ most vociferously ~ if the temp plunged much below -2C... Was that C or F you were talking...? -15F would be truly shocking... surely you could keep seedless grapes outside in the garden all night and then shatter them on the pavement the following day... like our chem teacher did on dipping said grapes in liquid nitrogen (that can't be MUCH colder than -15F... surely..??!?)
ReplyDeleteBIMBIMBIE: Place de la Concorde I know but cannot geographically place... do you know I actually have spent more time trudging the streets of PARIS than LONDON... so for years I knew the way around the French Capital far better than the English one!
Isn't the Tonky cute!!!
JEANNIE: oh no! I doubt it's any colder than that here... you DO mean -5C though, don't you???? Hectic confusion is ensuing over international temperature standards...
What pisses me off the MOST about Britain... and remember I'm set to EMIGRATE anyway as soon as I possibly can (ie if I EVER write a successful book ~ I'm OFF!!!) is that in high summer the roads melt, buses are super-skin-meltingly hot with no ventilation... the country isn't designed for it AT ALL... yet the newspapers pretty much print SNOW IN WINTER SHOCK headlines... and the country comes to rapid standstill then AS WELL. What a crappy set-up ~ I ask you!!
NICK: OOOOOOOOOO! I would like to see the Pygmy Mongolian Roborovski Trotters!
GATTINA: I fully agree with you... not that I get many gifts, because my family never really bothered much with Xmas. My Mum cooks dinner but if we forgot and did a normal day I don't think anyone would care. Best Xmas dinner ever was when we had BEEF instead ~ wonderful!!
MOLSON: if you said "donkey derby" to an English person they wouldn't think "what creative use of language" they'd picture a tubby furry horse race as pictured... though I have to say I always thought of DONKEY BEACH RIDES as donkey derbies ... strictly a separate occurence, I'm now duly informed! So it sounds like Trotterdonkey Derbies are an ABERRATION in America... how odd!
AKELAMALU: oh dear!!
ReplyDeleteSYD: bloody hell ~ nice to hear they still do things outsize in America even to this day..!
CRYSTALCHICKMARY: I'm going to have a look... You do realize you can BET (legally) on a white Xmas in this country... but I've pretty much given up for fear of terminally crap odds as surely it's (technically) snowed every day. The bookies' definition of a white Xmas is ONE flake of snow to FALL (not be lying on the ground ~ there could be 18 ft drifts but no precipitation = no white Xmas!!) on the roof of Bracknell Weather Centre. I've been to Bracknell and belive me, apart from the 3M Sellotape factory, the National Weather Centre is just about all that town's got going for it!
GRACIE: I'm still going ~ lovely to hear from you darlin'! xx
JANICE: oh thank you so much for the synopsis "thang" ~ I'm sure it will be VERY HELPFUL INDEED ~ I'm absolutely stumped when it comes to them... As for snow in London... possibly two vaguely snowy/frosty days in THREE years... but anything resembling true snow is rare ~ maybe once in 5 years and proper extended children-sledging-down-the-street-for-2-months-on-end cold snaps as in 1981 or 1982... about once in 20 years!!
UNIQUE:
How typical ~ I knew I'd forgotten to answer you Unique, but couldn't get back to a computer yesterday (I don't own one)...
ReplyDeleteHow do I get the pictures? By googling on "images" for e.g. "snow donkey"... or "snow parliament" and that's how such images come up. It's better to be as specific as possible, if you have an image in your mind it's very often up there... then you click on the image and put it in the blog. Some people complain about doing this, but if you upload images you DON'T want used you can blockade this, so I don't know what they're complaining about...
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