Deep and crisp and even ?

[venta]

Not 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 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.

<sulks>

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Sorry! You can have some of ours if you like?

(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...)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Disappointingly, in ten years of living in Oxford, I think i've only seen it in proper snow once. And even then I don't think I saw the centre, only my end of the world (Donnington Bridge) which really isn't that pretty!

If we get proper snow this year I must make the effort to head into town and appreciate it properly.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

It snowed heavily in my first January in Oxford (back in 198x ahem!). I'd guess that St Giles was cleared, but Norham Gardens (I was in LMH) took several days to clear of several inches of hard packed snow.

Which was very interesting to cycle on...

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

if you were to cross Donnington Bridge and take the footpath on the far side to the left, it leads to some bits of Oxford (Iffley Lock etc.) which i imagine would be rather pretty in the snow, and definitely qualify as your end of the world !
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 !