No disruption to report in this 'hood but "the London" has ground to a halt after something like 6 inches of snow. We're supposed to take a hammering tonight but I'll believe it when I get up tomorrow and find out I can't get to work. Once again, the UK has proven itself to be utterly incapable of handling something that really shouldn't make one iota of difference.
It's just damp and slushy here. Fairly unpleasant with the possibility of slipping and landing on one's tucus high. And I have to go bloody out in it... maybe you do too? You have my sympathies if that's the case. I've mislaid the links I was gonna put up here. That's clever isn't it?
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Yeah, s'daft... it's only like winters 20+ years ago, when I was a kid. Remember being dead embarassed when Ritchie from Screaming Apple visited London in, like, 1991 and everyfink ground to a halt after a light dusting of the white stuff! No progress there, then!
Anyhoo, did you dig JK's rekkid fayre spieler? I though it was fun, fun, fun 'yil daddy took the Dutch biet box away...
Best,
Joss
Aye. Not happy with reporting that Feb 2nd is the day most likely for a skive, the big fella threw some snaw into the mix. Todays news is that it'll ploeaxe the already fecked economy. It's all abit Yazz innit mate.
Hope you and Ms N are OK doon yonder.
Johan's thing however warmed the cockles of my heart. Y'know, there's a movie to be made out of all that, dontcha think?
Nadia and I be find, medium-sized yin!
There's already been a film made about 'collecting' records, the alternately hilarious/horrifying "Vinyl" by Alan Zweig. Likewise, longtime Beantown r'n'r journo Brett Milano's tome, "Vinyl Junkies" is excellently potty, replete with Monoman sending over $1k in cash to Portugal unregistered, and wondering why his super-rare Tony Jackson EP never turned up in the mail!
Joss
It shouldn't be embarrassing really. After all, Germany does have colder winters than the UK and is more used to dealing with snowy conditions. It doesn't make sense financially for us to have snow ploughs sitting there unused but once in 20 years. Germany, and many other countries, however, will have to get that snow plough out on an annual basis. There's the difference. If your tax money was being spent on snow ploughs that sat in a garage depreciating in value until they were near obsolete you wouldn't be very happy, would you?
I don't think that snow ploughs are the issue here. Some semblance of a plan to keep things moving isn't too much to expect surely? Or maybe it is, the way things are going in this country.
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