The White Stuff

[ratty]

Nope, my esteemed next door neighbour. He was out there at 6am doing it! Madman!

We shall all be found in a pub by lunchtime!

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Fantastic! I love snow! everyone looks so happy to be having a day off and to be getting in touch with their inner child via snowball fights, building snowmen and laughing at people falling over in the snow!

[Pozzee]

Any trains running yet? My husband is hoping they aren't - then he DEFINITELY can't get to work.

Poz x

[dogkennel]

Still nothing happening out of the window at East Dulwich station, light snow falling on the lines.

There was a hand written note on the ticket machine with words to the effect "no trains for the foreseeable future, listen to media for announcements". Hope that suffices as a note to concerned bosses?

[Pozzee]

Thanks dogkennel. Husband will walk down to take a photo of said note for his boss ;-)

P

[Timster]

Tube running from Brixton, not too far to walk from ED and lots of photo opportunities down Coldharbour Lane (which is improved greatly by a blanket of snow).

[snorky]

I am obviously a wanker, as I walked to work this AM - the reknowned Norf peckham yoof posse were too busy playing in the snow to kill me and rummage my pockets.

3-4 miles in the snow & ice is about 6 miles of normal walking , so make sure you have decent boots on if you try this.

A proper Stakhanovite worker me.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

snorky Wrote:

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> I am obviously a @#$%&, as I walked to work this

> AM - the reknowned Norf peckham yoof posse were

> too busy playing in the snow to kill me and

> rummage my pockets.

>

> 3-4 miles in the snow & ice is about 6 miles of

> normal walking , so make sure you have decent

> boots on if you try this.

>

> A proper Stakhanovite worker me.

Impressive!!! I am sure your boss is impressed! Has anyone else turned up for work? I find if the weather is pants, hardly anyone turns up for work and there is nothing to do but thumb twiddling and we usually get sent home early!

And this is London, I think the majority of Londoners don't have decent footwear for snow!

[HonaloochieB]

I have decent footwear Heidi, a stout pair of Blundstone boots.

But I'm still not attempting to get to work today.

Don't dob me in, right.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I have decent footwear Heidi, a stout pair of

> Blundstone boots.

> But I'm still not attempting to get to work

> today.

> Don't dob me in, right.

It is ok HonaloochieB, I have decent footwear too (only because I have been visiting the country a lot of late and the high heels just weren't cutting it) and I am not attempting to go anywhere today but in my defence, I live in one of those houses on Lordship Lane that has lots of stairs leading up to the front door and they are not gritted, and for some reason today I don't fancy breaking a leg or my neck.

Think I will make some cinnamon raisin cookies and have a nice ovaltine.

[sanity girl]

Sitting at my desk in my wellies after walking into work (not heroic though, it's only north dulwich to camberwell). Can't wait to leave early so I can go and play in the snow with my little girl!

[bignumber5]

I got in, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, at 8.30 this morning to be told that I was the only one out of the 50 of us to show up. Building closed as nobody to open it up, just the security guard delivering this message. Boss was in but when I rang him he said not to come in, seemed rather surprised when I told him i was there already. Found things to keep myself busy for a couple of hours then headed home via the chaos of sainsburys.

Interesting times.

[Ko]

dc - thanks for the smileys!

we were by the coast at the weekend and decided to go to the beach while it was snowing. quite a few other people had the same idea. blooming cold but lots of fun! also a few kite-surfers in the sea even though it was snowing as the winds were up and there were great waves. soon after we scarpered back to london as didn't want to get snowed in!

[Ko]

by the way, way back at the beginning of this thread i wanted to know why the sky wasn't dark last night? i still want to know! does anyone intelligent know the answer???

[Dr De Soto]

Ko Wrote:

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> by the way, way back at the beginning of this

> thread i wanted to know why the sky wasn't dark

> last night? i still want to know! does anyone

> intelligent know the answer???

We're not far from a full moon at the moment, and in between heavy snow showers the sky was clear for a while last night. That might have something to do with it.

[Applespider]

Ko Wrote:

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> why is the sky not dark?

Could be a variety of effects. The clouds are white/grey and probably relatively low-level so the streetlights will be reflecting off them. Plus snow on the ground will reflect light back too so seems lighter than usual.

[dulwichdoll]

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