Amazing, it snowed. Where you ask, well, in various bits of the UK, (how the heck did that...), yes, a few inches of snow and little old Blighty has a fit. You would find it hard to believe that it has ever snowed here before. It's not that we weren't warned. Those nice BBC weather people have been threathening it for a few days, (don't you just love those BBC weather guys and gals almost as nice as the news presenters), but then, I guess, most of us didn't believe them. 'Snow, you say, no, not here, never get us here, not since the year blahblahblah has it snowed!' Yeah well, you tell that to the people who found themselves stuck at Bodmin yesterday.
The thing I found amusing, (there were a few things), was the police reaction. They knew it was going to snow but they didn't expect it to be that bad or something along those lines. Ahh, in other words you were caught slacking mate, just say so...just say that yes, you saw that nice weather person mention snow but you didn't believe them, then forgot about it and then whoosh you find yourself freezing your arse off trying to save an old-dear who's stuck in her car with all that white stuff around her.
Even the Army got caught up in it, which must have been a preference to having their rear-ends blown to the back of beyond in Iraq I suppose. 'Soldier, you have a choice. Either go and save a bunch of people snowed in their cars in some pretty part of England or be shipped out to Iraq where you may get to be blown to kingdom come.' Tough choice huh?!
Anyway, my sense of humour, on this subject, may not be tasteful but that's the mood I'm in today...grumpy with a shade of pissy.|-|