Snowed Out.: ARSE THORNS

[ewt]

It's snowing in London. I imagine that it isn't very MUCH snow, because it generally isn't in Britain, but I'm not there so I can't really say; the Met Office website is somewhat helpful but not quite specific enough about how much snow has actually fallen. Anyway, the English can't deal wiht more than about 1cm of snow sensibly, so anything more than that is Lots Of Snow for all practical purposes.

This means our flight to Heathrow has been cancelled, and we will fly out tomorrow morning at 9am local time, arriving in London 11am-ish GMT.

This is interesting as I am meant to be teaching in Finchley at 08.30GMT... and, well, I don't have my phone.

Thankfully there is internets here and BA have arranged to pay for my use of long-distance phone from the hotel room to re-schedule tomorrow's teaching...

Hopefully most of my students will be able to re-schedule for Monday. That would be simplest all 'round and gives me a chance tomorrow to try and find a cheep PAYG sim and borrow or buy a handset from someone.

Further updates as events warrant, and whoever says "What else could possibly go wrong?" will be hung, drawn and quartered. Twice.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It's practically non-existant and isn't settling, so I shouldn't panic.

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

So they've cancelled your flight? My parents are supposed to be landing at Heathrow at 5:30am. Cue panic!

(Wonder if I'll be getting a call from Singapore or something...)

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

Slight relief: their flight isn't cancelled. Yet.

[keira-online.livejournal.com]

We've had snow storms on and off most of the day in Oxford. But none of it has settled. However I can imagine its been a bugger to drive or fly in.

[karen2205]

It's illegal for shops over a certain size to be open tomorrow 'cos it's Easter Sunday and we have silly Sunday trading laws, so not sure how easy it'll be to find a PAYG sim - maybe try a phone shop at Heathrow if one's open there?

I've had what I'd describe as 'sunshine and snow' today - with weird sudden changes from one to the other, with a dusting of snow left on the rooftops but nothing's settled yet - am expecting more tomorrow.

*hugs* and *chocolate*

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

It's not so much that there's a lot of it on the ground, [it's not sticking] as that there's a helluva lot of it in the air and it's all mostly going sideways!

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

If it helps, Brent Cross is open Monday.

[devvie.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see this particular icon I always think it's some news from Livejournal.. :P

[devvie.livejournal.com]

Cute icon alert!!

[battlekitty.livejournal.com]

heh - thanks (not my work, though. Wish I could do that!)

Also: FLUFF PUP!

snow

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Kathryn,

Come and live in a place where they know what snow is and how to deal with it! I'm sorry your phone is a goner--please let me know your new number when you have one.

Love,
Dad