December:
"Yippee, it's been snowing!"
January:
"Oh...snow..."
Febuary:
"ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"
It's beyond a joke! Really, enoughs enough!
Snow, I hate you...go away!
A man knocked on the door yesterday wanting to talk about global warming...I punched him.
I grew up in the north of London, suffice to say, years would pass without a single flake of of snow falling anywhere near me. We were so starved of snow as children that I can remember one year, on a particulary windy April day, the trees surrounding the play ground of my school shed all of the white blossom that they held on their branches and one loud mouth kid shouted out "It"s snowing!" And for a few seconds we all thought that it was indeed snowing, a hundred or so children went crazy, throwing their caps in the air along with their satchels. Some of the bigger kids even threw some of the smaller kids! Unhappily though, our joy was short lived.
This winter has been remarkable. For one thing, we in the western parts of Europe are not so used to the truly cold winters we used to have-those of us who expierenced the winter of 1962/63 would scoof at our puny winter this year. The other thing of course, is that we have been told for over a decade that the world is getting warmer. I'm no expert on climate change, but I can remember clearly that so called experts, people that had studied the climate and the history of weather patterns were saying that we as a planet, were heading towards another ice age. This was about thirty years ago, I guess. Time flies, doesn't it? One minute you think that Kajagoogoo are the bees knees, the next you are watching Lady Gaga with a mixture of fear and incomprehension. What happened to the ice age? A quick search on Google will lead you to newspaper articles telling us that a) Britain will be in the grip of an ice age before the end of the century and b) Britain's climate will soon be conducive to growing wine grapes to match the best of our European neighbours.
Don't you just love experts?
All I know is, it's bloody freezing out there. It's been snowing all day and I felt like Dr Zhivago this morning during my walk to the shops.
