Your Letters
14:44 UK time, Monday, 2 February 2009
Nearly lunchtime, and not even the Quote of the Day has been updated yet? I spot a snow day at Magazine headquarters... hmmph. I'm jealous because here we still only have a cm or so...
Susannah, Northampton
Monitor: We all got here on time actually, but we suddenly needed to . Sorry.
Really? I'm not suprised if everybody is ...
Jo, Hampshire, UK
Highlight of the snowy weather so far for me: someone had built a snowman on Brighton Road in Croydon, but instead of the traditional carrot for a nose, this snowman had a cigarette lighter. As I was passing this morning, a man calmly removed the lighter from the snowman's face, lit his cigarette with it, and put the lighter back.
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK
Now that London has been brought to a standstill by the snow, I presume we'll be flooded with comments along the lines of "Snow! Call this snow? When I were a lad, every day between September and March, I had to walk ten miles to school through twenty foot snow drifts and raging blizzards, fighting off wolves with a blunt slate pencil, with half a cold potato for breakfast, and we were grateful!"
Michelle B, London
Blah-blah, yes, I know, it's pretty wintry back in old Blighty today. But could I possibly point out that a couple of weeks ago here in Minnesota that it was minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit (admittedly with wind chill). This meant it was 100 degrees warmer in my fridge.
Rachel, Minnetonka
Isn't it nice when news items dovetail into a nice pattern? Yesterday the Ö÷²¥´óÐã News web-site had headlines "Southern Britain braces for snow" and "Concern over white heroin return". Neat?
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
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