It's official. Hell has frozen over...
 

...London, that is.

~ -18c over night in parts of England, -3c right now in London (according to my temp guage), and the ice on the London walkways and roads have already had me arse over tit twice.

I tried to get to the office in the car but gave up after 15 minutes of struggling to get the frozen snow off the windows. It's on a day like this that i hate having the ability to work at home.

I've seen Ice Road Truckers so am able to drive on ice by default and will give it a go later on.

I'm now warming my cockles with a cottage pie sandwich.

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-24 here at the mo - I'm off to work 'cos we got snow tyres, innit? That's all the UK needs really, snow tyres. They fix everything.


Enjoy your snow day ;) :thumbup:

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Couldn't you scrape that small amount of snow and ice off the windscreen? If that amount of snow stops you in your tracks, you should hope for home based employment when you get to Canada.

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I'm moving to Vancouver so i'll be fine.

My scraper (CD case) wasn't adequate for removing the ice and me being lazy gave up after figuring out effort would be required to continue my journey. :thumbsup:

By the way, the picture of my car was taken AFTER my feeble 15 minute attempt.

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How old fashioned! CD's? What are they? Scraping the ice off with your ipod is not as practical, so the well heeled gentleman should use his (gold) credit card instead!

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-3? Start the thing, turn on the heater and come back 5 minutes later?:confused:


Ive been to Hell...doesnt look anything like that:p
http://britishexpats.com/photopost/d...371_Large_.jpg
Its on Grand Cayman...no danger of it freezing over I should think.

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Sounds as if there's a marketing opportunity in the UK for windshield brush/scrapers. Where are all the entrepreneurs?

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Likewise! It's been -6C out in the Fens and although it snowed yesterday it melted and refroze so the road this morning, after another light dusting, looked just like the Ice Road - beautiful but dangerous.

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Trapped at home by the snow at a guess...

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Barsteward :thumbdown:

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Pfffft.....snowed in here in mid Kent on our "holiday" back to the UK. Can't get round to see all the rellies we wanted to as a result. Brother had to abandon his car on the way home and walk last night. Tried to escape the village in the hire car today but the bald tires couldn't get us further than two roads away. This morning some of the family set off on a snowy trek to Morrisons to panic buy some bread and milk.

(Only about 4 to 6 inches on the ground.....pfffft)

Currently I am worriedly gnawing fingernails at the prospect of more snow to come and we are supposed to fly back to Calgary on sunday.....ho hum.

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Gold? Mine's black ;)

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I left the car running and the heater blowing for a good 10 minutes and even though it did start to work slowly, i gave up cos i was bored and didn't want to miss Dog the Bounty Hunter on the telly.

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British panic buying (in the event of inclement weather, public holidays, the start of war in the Gulf etc) seems to be centred around bog roll and bottled water. I recall shopping in Tesco's back in GW2 and not being able to buy any bottled water to use after we'd gaffer taped ourselves under the stairs to wait out the inevitable chemical/biological/nuclear terrorist attack, so we bought wine instead. We'dve perished in a happy state.

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On "recycle"? Fancy car like that you think would do better.

I think we see the real reason here anyway:p