SparkyFizz

Christmas...

 

Wishing all my blog readers a Merry Christmas...

Christmas Pictures...

 

Funny video no 2...

Then, yesterday morning at 8am, poor James Naughtie made this blunder on Radio 4 whilst introducing the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt.  I felt so sorry for him, after all he's a seasoned broadcaster - but it was very funny!

 

Ah, well... I'm sure he's had a good laugh about it, and at least everyone knows who Jeremy Hunt is now!

Funny video...

I love this video on making news reports from Charlie Brooker...

  

A very strange week...

The snow is subsiding now, but it's still very slippy everywhere.  I feel that it's been such a strange and unexpected week.  I can't remember seeing so much snow since I lived in London, but maybe my memory is poor.

This is my 12' (30cms) ruler on the table  outside.  You can see that we had almost 12'' of snow!  This is how it looks in context...

Now I know that in my hometown of Burnley this isn't such an unusual sight, but I can assure you that it is here!  It's also been very beautiful, icicles everywhere, but chaotic - gutters falling down, my very large shrubs have fallen over with the weight of snow, and as all the schools shut down we were forced to take stock, slow down and wait.

The boys had a great time...!  Not such a bad thing really.  So now I'm totally disorganized.  All the shopping and Christmas planning is awry, but I've never been good at meticulous planning, so why worry?

South Eastern Trains ground to a halt.  That wasn't so bad, but the lack of information was shocking.  My husband kept making an effort to go to work, walking to the station, no buses, but when he arrived there was never any information.  He simply didn't know if a train was ever going to come.  So he gave up and stayed at home too.  Twitter became the only reliable source of information regarding train journeys, and many were very funny.  The newspapers had fun with the cartoons, this is Matt from the Daily Telegraph...

One train out of London to Kent took 19 hours and people had to stay on the train overnight!

They must find us so amusing in Sweden or Chicago.