Snow!

[nineveh_uk]

The phone interview turned out to be a lot less intimidating than I had anticipated, and certainly better than trying to get to, across, and out of London by train. I would like more snow locally, but I can manage without, especially as in 6 weeks I shall be in Norway.

I was wondering the other day whether men in central London still wore bowler hats on occasion, and it seems that – at least if the occasion is snowy – they do! It’s the fact that he is clearly lifting it to someone that seems bizarre – it is snowing, man, keep your hat on your head!

We are going to have to apologise to posters on hp_britglish, though, for the “It never snows in London” rule.

http://snowballfightlondon.blogspot.com/ It’ll all end in tears. Still, I love the internet.

Finally, I am not complaining. Of course snow in the south-east causes chaos – the first snow of the year regularly causes chaos in Norway because they are unprepared for it – and why are we unprepared? I assume because it is cheaper to lose one day in 18 years, than to run full snow coverage just in case on the other 6569 days. Although I really don’t think that Boris Johnson encouraging people to bring their cars into London was a smart move.

Comments

[white_hart]

I'm glad the interview went well (and, indeed, that it went at all - I wasn't at all sanguine about your chances of getting to Cambridge!).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It was when I switched on the news at 6:30am that I decided that I really didn't want to set off until I knew that (a) I could get there and (b) the people would be there to interview me. Happily they also phone interviewed the other person of the day, which made me feel better (less that it was a sop to me as a candidate they weren't that bothered about, or that I was sending the wrong message).