Weather report... boring. And the Perfect Man!!

[curiouswombat]

The great snowstorms sweeping across the British Isles have swept across the bottom half of the small island - blown by steady 35mph winds. It began to snow at 9am. It snowed almost constantly until 5pm - and not a single flake has stuck below about 1,000ft. I am really quite disappointed as I am a bit of a big kid when it snows - at least for the first couple of days.

I do, still, send warm wishes, mugs of virtual hot chocolate, woolly blankets and so on to those of you who are knee-deep in snow and feeling the need to cuddle up by the fire. I hope you are all enjoying the weather rather than finding it makes life too difficult.

And now for something completely different.

Across the Atlantic, The New York Daily News went out to find Mr Perfect after revealing the results of a survey by an online dating site into what women look for in a man. They reckon that they've found him - and guess what? He's a Manxman. Actually his father taught me French at school and I can vaguely remember him as a small child...

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[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Knee deep! It's barely sledable - yet it was still lethal driving home.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Our local small garden centre had a big sign outside yesterday 'Snow Shovels and Sledges in stock!". It was a good move as lots of people probably bought them ready for the snow we were meant to get today... but didn't. Whereas today probably almost no-one would have bought them.

A couple of our nurses spent the whole day worrying in case the snow stuck as they live a few miles south of Douglas and there are two big hills that ALWAYS get blocked with skidding cars as soon as there is more than a one flake thick layer on the road. Sometimes they are cars that were driven by people so worried about the snow that they simply went so very slow that they stalled...

I was almost stuck a couple of years ago on a hill in Douglas by someone doing that - and the slight layer of snow is no problem on the slope as long as you can keep moving!

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, my trip home is very short and mostly downhill, even down the 1:9 bit. Though I had to abandon my car there in 2003 as a bus was struggling to get up it and I didn't fancy being knocked over the of the drop into the park.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes - I think that was probably an eminently sensible idea...