SNOW DAY!

It's a given, snow just doesn't happen in London - so naturally everything has ground to a standstill: no planes, trains or automobiles as per the title of the film.




Image copyright Tack-O-Rama

I've cancelled my appointments, battened down the hatches and I'm IN for the duration... but oh, it's so pretty! Here's the view from our windows this morning (9.00am).


View from the bedroom window (front of the block)









































Views from the living room window (at the back) into the gardens below - even the neighbour's garden table opposite (sheltered under that huge umbrella) has snow on it!















I'd reckon we have at least 4 inches of snow!

Just think, in Canada, Scandanavia, Norway - even the north of England, it's business as normal (in Scarborough, North Yorkshire - where my husband comes from, they have the grit wagons out at the first signs of snowfall) but here in London it's so unexpected that everything travel-wise has collapsed!

It's still snowing as I write this blog (10.28am) and we have a Severe Weather Warning - blizzards! I don't think there's been a blizzard in London since the Old Master paintings of people skating on the River Thames back in Elizabethan times:


Oil by Hendrick Avercamp 1585-1634