One last snow post for the moment, as rain is forecast now and they say it may all clear soon. An earlier version of this poem was posted a couple of years ago; I haven’t made huge changes, though I’ve added line breaks and tweaked it a little.
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Category: UK
snow warnings
It’s a long time since I was resident in the UK and there are things that catch my attention although I’m sure most people take them for granted. I giggled childishly, for example, at last night’s weather forecast, when they announced a “yellow snow warning”.
I thought Frank Zappa warned us about that decades ago.
discussing whether
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sunday afternoon
Looking through some old photos, I came across this:**
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
village scenes
I went for a brief walk this morning and was struck by how eminently English** everything seemed.
First of all, although not actually raining, it was so dark and wintry that the streetlights were on despite the fact it was nearly 10am:
don't confuse the narrator 