Hehehe yeah, more snowmen. Hopefully this time NOT in the middle of our driveway... cough
I had to walk a slalom around 4 snowmen this morning lol.

It makes me sad that so many people in places like Moscow and Canada are making fun of England's snow woes, going "We have more than this and we don't grind to a halt."
Yeah.
We do.
And no.
You don't.

I'll pay attention to the taunts when they come from places like Alabama, Louisiana and the like, which would probably cope just as well (or not) as London and the South East did. :)
We don't get it every year, we don't have winter tires with spikes, we don't have massive snow plows to hand everywhere -- because it's been 18 years since there's been this much snow.
I grew up in Germany, spent most of my time in the Alps, skiing. I know snow. I've shoveled several meters of it off a cabin roof when I was a kid and we were snowed in for a week half way up a mountain.
If you've never encountered anything like this -- and most of the workforce simply hasn't -- then it's tricky to cope with it.
It just doesn't make sense to buy snowplows on the off-chance that we might get a foot of snow for a couple of days.
If they'd buy them now, and then we don't get anything like this again for 20 years... by the time they are needed, they'll have been sold or rusted away.
Comparing London to Moscow or Toronto in terms of weather doesn't make any sense.
So we had a day off and all played in the snow. :)
I think they're all just jealous because we got a day off work!

Silke