For those of you who don't live in the UK Sock Monkey would like to report that it has been snowing like an absolute bastard here. We have had the worst snow in 18 (count them) years. We woke up yesterday to 8 inches of snow. All the trains were fucked, not a bus in sight and I live nowhere near a tube station. The country had ground to a total halt. So it was a day of laundry and ironing for me! My how I caught up with my housework.This morning I was all prepared to go trip-trip-trip billygoats gruff to work only to find that there were still no trains from Crystal Palace to London Bridge. So I went home, had a cup of tea and went online to plan my plan B alternative route. One hour later, when I was halfway to work and packed on a train which I imagine was similar to the train to Auschwitz, I phoned work to say I was on my way and told not to bother. So I enjoyed my 2 hour round trip halfway to work and back home.
Once I got off the bus (after wandering around Honor Oak Park for bloody ages looking for a bus stop) I decided to have a nice walk in the park. I live really close to Crystal Palace Park and it is a) huuuuge and b) lovely. So I walked past the site of the old Crystal Palace and looked at all the remaining statues all covered in snow (I don't think the sphynxes liked it). It looks a bit like Narnia where all the people were turned into statues. After falling on my arse I had a wander around the dinosaur park and after a snowy hour went home and had lasagne for lunch. Which I had been carrying around in my bag all morning. At least it stayed cold!
I hired a personal trainer in December and we run in Crystal Palace every week. God knows how this is gong to work tomorrow. Kristian said we were going to go 'Alpine Walking'. All I know is that it is bloody icy in there at the moment. After last week's session I was dripping with mud so I do hope I don't end tomorrow's session with a broken/sprained item.
Have to go now. I'm off to look for 2 tennis raquets to strap to my feet.
2 comments:
HA! That was nothing...here in Washington, we had the worst snow since sometime in 1960. over a foot in one night, cars sliding all over the place ( remember, we are out in the country, or as Mike says, " Bumfuck Egypt")
My car got whacked when I was at the bottom of a hill - which is not difficult in Bremerton, there is no flat land at all . So off to the repair shop to have the dents bashed out at somebody else's expense, because for once, it wasn't my fault. Oh, and it snowed on Monday - that was Feb. 9th. What happened to Global Warming, I should like to know?? F.
'Bumfuck Egypt' sounds quite idyllic.
I saw a film which was set in a town called 'Bumfuck Arkansas'.
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