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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2012-02-03 10:33 am
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The precipitation forecast for tomorrow evening, which has been up and down like the proverbial, is now showing snow. May it remain so! It is also showing sleet at the end in typical English battle-of-the-fronts style, so if it snows early enough I may go out skiing before Borgen just in case, though this means pavements. I am enjoying Borgen very much, despite the subtitler’s apparent desire to get through the whole series translating all swearing as “For God’s sake”. When this is Scandinavian religious swearing, which is (a) stronger, and (b) doesn’t involve God, this is quite entertaining, but it does lack subtlety.

I see that Chris Huhne has been charged. Oh dearie me.

And much more than oh dearie me, I see that Pakistan’s first innings total of 99 was a cunning foreign plot to undermine the confidence of the English batsmen...

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2012-02-03 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
We've got no snow at all. It's really weird going up on the hill when it's minus 16 degrees, the sun is shining brightly and the ground is hard as iron but completely dry and brown. (When I say "we" I mean "those of us in my part of Austria" - some of the ski resorts have got 3 metres of snow - on the whole, I think I'd rather have no snow than 3 metres' worth). But something very strange is going on when Lower Austria is snowless and Oxford has enough that people can go skiing.

[identity profile] dbassassin.livejournal.com 2012-02-03 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
We have no snow here - again, another winter in which southern England gets more snow than southern Ontario. Very, very strange.

And yes, this has been a very strange series for the batting, hasn't it?

[identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com 2012-02-03 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Has an edict gone out to subtitlers after too many "fucks" in The Killing? I am a week behind with Borgen but I have foiled iPlayer deleting things because I have it on the magic box.

My hill does not look like my icon yet. It is green and hard as a rock. It is certainly cold enough for snow, were the sky to decide to produce any. *clutches hot water bottle*

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2012-02-03 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked the comment on the BBC TMS site that Pakistan were going to try to get a hundred, and so avoid having to bat again ...

[identity profile] stevie-carroll.livejournal.com 2012-02-04 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'm hoping the snow holds off here until later in the evening, as the maps seem to suggest this morning. I'd like my train back from London to take a sensible amount of time to complete its journey.