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affecting all of the UK Normally the weather only affects a bit of the UK while the rest of the UK remains weatherless. Weatherlessness? No wind, no fog, no rain, no thunderstorms, no snow, no blue...
View Articlea little rash last night
Last night I decided to go into work today. A week after Thomas got snowed into the drive, finally I planned on taking him out for a spin and some slip sliding… This morning 3 inches of new snow...
View Articlesnow crash
During the recent snow, cars moved very, very slowly and often moved into unintended places with slow, steady momentum. It’s difficult to forget the world while shivering. Its worth a try. Getting a...
View Articlehearts and noses
the snow is cold and fresh, lets go out on the downs and make love, I really want to make love outdoors, please… I knew the pull of making love in freshly fallen snow. But not with him. We weren’t even...
View Articletree stump avoidance
Halfway up the Thames Valley’s infamous Streatly Bobsliegh run the Reading team stop to discuss how best to use their cardboard sled advanced tree-stump avoidance tactics healthcare provision
View Articlesnowed under
Iced tea and Tennessee Bourbon on the menu today at the wendy house. We don’t often get snow so this is a bit of treat. There was an impromptu party in my local convenience store. Groups of young folk...
View Articlerear view mirror
The driver of the car behind me in this traffic jam hadn’t bothered to remove the 4 inches of snow from the roof, bonnet, lights and even most of the windscreen of their car – before driving it. I had...
View Articlebroken wing
As the snow recedes it reveals the debris of an unseen drama. A perfectly formed wing, depaired from it’s partner. Did the wearer ‘fall’ or were they pushed?
View Articlepassed and past
The graveyard at Cemetery junction in Reading town is a ‘Garden Cemetery’, designed and planted to enable visitors to promenade. Most weekends I’ll take a stroll around the cemetery, enjoying the...
View ArticleNo coat hangers
Most of the time it’s below freezing. Today’s been an exception, I’ve walked out with my coat undone, no hat, no gloves and my scarf hanging limp in the sunshine. Yet the restaurants don’t offer to...
View Articlesnow clearing trucks
Lots of helpful snow clearing trucks take to the road as soon as the little white mischievous chilly things start to fall. Meanwhile, I’m driving around looking for a pre-owned home and car. I wonder...
View Articlecon dense sation
It takes a few minutes, or more, for a street parked car to warm up when it’s so cold outside that the Mississippi is frozen-over. On days like these I leave 15 minutes earlier for work. I scrape the...
View Articlewhite out, walked in
Another polished concrete floor. This one isn’t in my apartment. Under the stool in a bar where the floor is probably washed on a daily basis. This is salt, walked in by customers crossing the car...
View Articlethe scary balcony
Exchanging the Wendy House staircase of doom for the Wendy Loft scary balcony, is a novelty. As the weather warms I’m sending myself as a scouting party onto the balcony to discover it’s virtues: To...
View ArticleDandruff (snowflake #1)
Small, firm, frozen droplets, creating a light fog with a sticky texture. Settling on walls and trees, creating a cover that doesn’t crunch under-foot First in a series that will describe the different...
View ArticleAntisocial (snowflake #2)
This type of snowflake has a personal space in excess of 3ft It meanders down avoiding settling on stuff and disappears as soon as it hits a surface. The flakes may be more substantial than “Dandruff”...
View ArticleStupid (Snowflake #3)
It’s thick, it’s dense. It’s common, there’s a lot of it about. It doesn’t seem to be going away. It’s a bit flakey. I’m a bit fascinated by it’s arrival and watch, dumb-struck. Stupid snow. It’s here...
View ArticleFake (Snowflake #4)
A bi-product of the entertainment industry. Mainly used when temperatures are already below 32F. It provides a thin fresh, clean covering. Forth in a series that will describe the different types of...
View ArticleSpooky (snowflake #5)
Like dry ice on stage at a concert, spooky snow sweeps over the road, swirling away from the approaching car tires. It lingers like smoke until approached when it speedily swirls away into the...
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