Deep and crisp and even ?
Nov. 19th, 2004 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNot fair! Not fair!
Last night, driving to Thame from work, I got a call from Andy telling me it was snowing in Cambridge.
Once I'd got home, I had a chat with Samantha and she told me that they had proper, settling snow up in Leicestershire.
This morning there was a bit of frost on my car.
And now I'm in work, skimming quickly over my friends' page. And all the Cambridge people have snow. And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nalsa up in Leeds has snow, and sushidog is waxing lyrical about how pretty her snow is, and dammit it's not fair!
Where's my snow ?
I started in Oxford this morning, and drove across a chunk of Oxfordshire and a small sliver of Berkshire to get to my office in Reading - and not a flake to be seen anywhere.
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Last night, driving to Thame from work, I got a call from Andy telling me it was snowing in Cambridge.
Once I'd got home, I had a chat with Samantha and she told me that they had proper, settling snow up in Leicestershire.
This morning there was a bit of frost on my car.
And now I'm in work, skimming quickly over my friends' page. And all the Cambridge people have snow. And
nalsa up in Leeds has snow, and sushidog is waxing lyrical about how pretty her snow is, and dammit it's not fair!Where's my snow ?
I started in Oxford this morning, and drove across a chunk of Oxfordshire and a small sliver of Berkshire to get to my office in Reading - and not a flake to be seen anywhere.
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Date: 2004-11-19 02:08 am (UTC)(Oxford looks _so_ pretty in the snow... but then it looks so pretty in other weather too, whereas Milton Keynes rarely looks anything other than stubby and modern and ugly...)
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Date: 2004-11-19 03:30 am (UTC)If we get proper snow this year I must make the effort to head into town and appreciate it properly.
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Date: 2004-11-19 03:43 am (UTC)Which was very interesting to cycle on...
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Date: 2004-11-21 05:12 pm (UTC)i also recommend the Holywell churchyard in the snow
(just to show what a sad old stereotypical goth i am)
and imagine Port Meadow probably looks rather fine.
now i want snow too, dammit !
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Date: 2004-11-19 02:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 02:14 am (UTC)Plenty of rain, though.
Why does the snow avoid me? Doesn't it like me?
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Date: 2004-11-19 02:14 am (UTC)sulk back atcha
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Date: 2004-11-19 03:31 am (UTC)Bless you!
And too add injury to insult
Date: 2004-11-19 02:34 am (UTC)I didn't, so it was damn cold this morning too.
And there wasn't any snow to make up for it!
Re: And too add injury to insult
Date: 2004-11-19 03:31 am (UTC)Was damn chilly this morning, though.
Re: And too add injury to insult
Date: 2004-11-19 03:41 am (UTC)(Plus, I was absolutely knackered when I got home, and then spent the entire evening being tired, stressed and immobile on my sofa. So when I went to bed at 1am, I really did feel the cold.)
Re: And too add injury to insult
Date: 2004-11-19 03:59 am (UTC)I have no idea, I was in Thame, wandering about outside :)
To be fair when I went to bed about midnightish it seemed colder. Maybe it got suddenly colder late on in the evening.
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Date: 2004-11-19 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 03:41 am (UTC)To be fair, while driving last night there was a patch of very intense rain, which might have been sleet. Couldn't tell from in the car, and didn't really fancy getting out to check.
I am, however, due to go to Burton on Trent this evening, so hopefully I might meet some of the cold, white stuff up there.
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Date: 2004-11-19 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 03:55 am (UTC)Those of us who cycle to work rejoice.
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Date: 2004-11-19 04:24 am (UTC)There you go.
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Date: 2004-11-19 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 04:18 am (UTC)As a consolation, however, it is the icy kind and I live up 2 steep hills, which basically meant that I was skidding and riverdancing on my way to work this morning...
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Date: 2004-11-19 04:29 am (UTC)Think its been pinched....
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Date: 2004-11-19 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-19 11:45 am (UTC)Erm. Sorry. I, er, do grammar. Ignore me if it's annoying rather than helpful.
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Date: 2004-11-28 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-28 04:48 pm (UTC)So:
Most days I pass the newsagent - actually, I passed it yesterday.
She asked him to pass the peas - he passed them promptly.
Did you pass your exam? Yes, I passed it.
'Past' can refer to 'the past', things which have happened ('In the past, people thought the earth was flat').
It can also refer to something which you have passed, in the sense of moving alongside and then ahead of something.
I went for a walk; I walked down the road, hurried past the rubbish dump, and passed the pub on the corner.
The difference is the verb, but at this time of night and not having properly stufdied English to get the right terminology, I can't explain the difference. Basically, if you use the verb 'I pass something', instead of I hurry, I walk, whatever, then you use 'I passed'. IF you use another verb, like I run, I jog, I hurry, and you want to express going past something, you use 'past'.
Enough! Sorry :)
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