The price of beauty is pain.

[reddragdiva]

The Northern Line was out from Golders Green to Edgware this evening. I'm told it snowed or something. Hundreds of commuters got to get out and wait for buses. So I nicked off to the Indian across the road for dinner, in the hope of waiting it out. No such luck, of course, so I gave up and walked it. Quicker than the buses and cars, too. Gloves on, scarf wrapped around head. (I so needed my hat.) Only half an hour of the icy pavement duckwalk, and I only fell on my arse once. That's my day's exercise for sure.

ali_anarres complained about some stupid bastard going on about the joy of snow on LiveJournal. ewtikins asked if I enjoyed the walk.

I, of course, loudly proclaimed:

"SNOW!!!"

With the waving arms and everything.

ewtikins made a snowman! The eyes are potatoes, the nose is a parsnip, the mouth is radishes and the arms are celery. The scarf is synthetic.

Be sure to add snow!!! to your interests.

Comments

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Is that CELERY? Yow.

K.

[reddragdiva]

Perhaps the eyes should be tomatoes, the mouth stuffed olives and the nose a vodka bottle.

[satsumagirl]

It looks like quite an evil snowman with those eyes.

[diffrentcolours]

It looks like Marvin the Paranoid Android.

[reddragdiva]

TV show version?

[diffrentcolours]

Indeed.

[reddragdiva]

Next time, instead of potatoes, shall we use satsumas?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Snow bad. It took me *hours* to get home. Hours and hours. *Nothing* worked and I thought I ws going to end up sleeping in White City in the snow. Snow bad.

[reddragdiva]

That's just the EVIL ANTI-SNOW FORCES trying to work their PROPAGANDIC WAYS upon you. It wasn't SNOW that was the problem, it was PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS who want to PRIVATISE SNOW so we can't have any. Yes, THEY were responsible for your plight!

The right and proper way to deal with this is to KILL TONY BLAIR, except it's clear that he's ALREADY DEAD. Yes.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Pah! I was disagreeing with you all the way until the last paragraph and then you go and ruin my dissent.

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what a parsnip looked like!

In my mind that snowman is "Penisface". If you knew how much I like penis you would understand that the thought is far from derogatory in intent.

The whole vegetable theme is very clever, much nicer and more effective than the carrots and buttons I used as a child (the buttons were too small).

*wanders away wondering if parsnip tastes anything like it looks*

[reddragdiva]

Well, it doesn't taste like penis ;-) Er, it's related to the noble carrot. Quite different flavour and not as strong. Very good in soups.

ewtikins was just using whatever she could get from Tesco. No coal in London, it's a smoke-free fuel zone.

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

I was rather happy to see that no snow came near here at all. Snow is bad and wrong and evil. Only problem we got was a powercut.... what fun that was ;)

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

you know I am so jealous.
Two years, TWO WHOLE YEARS* I spent in that city and did it snow? No! Well, once for five minutes whilst I was walking down the road and even then, it had evaporated before it hit the ground. Doesn't count.

*okay, so I'm exaggerating. I go to other places, but there were two winters and that's what counts

[reddragdiva]

Wish I'd brought the camera to work with me this morning. It snowed again overnight - beautiful fresh snow over everything, by daylight. The sky is clear too.

Of course, this means the ice will be an Utter Bastard over the weekend. And more snow will go on top of it Monday, looks like.

[incy.livejournal.com]

Tubes- know the feeling took me forever to get to Golders Green. Had to wait about 3 trains befor eI enven had the honour of getting crushed like a very cruished thing. At least I am onyl ten minutes walk from Golders Green Station, but normally i would get a bus at night, but no such luck.

Whats the inidain restaturant like btw?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Tell you what. Take all the damn snow and spend a month with it in Australia, where it'll do some good.