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Date: 02/03/06
In Like A Lion...
This morning, I opened my front door to this merry sight:
"Aha!", I thought. "Pete Doherty must have sneezed
again!" But no, 'tis but our usual March surprise. Second day of
Spring, my arse!
Well, it stopped the buses getting here (or anywhere very much), so
in the absence of work, I tooled up with my trusty BenQ C51 and walked
abroad. Or rather, I trudged, a word which might have been
invented specifically for snowy conditions.
I'd no sooner got to the end of the road, than it really started
coming down again:
Visibility dropped:
Not surprisingly, the village school was closed:
(Those sparkly effects aren't a pathetic attempt on my part to
appear artistic, by the way. The light level was so poor by
this time that the automatic flash kicked in. Still, it looks good,
doesn't it?).
(PS. Hey, teach! 'Today' is one word, not two!)
There was no possibility of taking any photographs on the way back
home; the damn snow was in my face all the way, it was getting into my
coat pockets, and I'd accumulated an inch or so on my hood by the time
I got in the house.
It was about 8.45 by this time, and I whiled away the morning
watching a group of about twenty Nathans and Kellys (*) standing around
on the corner waiting for vehicles to throw snowballs at.
After lunch, with the weather having brightened up considerably, I
thought I'd take another walk. Besides, I needed stamps from the Post
Office.
I ended up taking some quite good pictures, some of which may well
end up in the Gallery
at some stage.
(* my shorthand for the types of teenagers usually found hanging
around on street corners in places like this. It stems from the
stereotypical conversations you overhear from teenage girls at bus
stops. It usually goes like this:
"Keeley, 'ave yer seen Kayleigh?"
"Saw Kayleigh over by the shop. She were talkin' to Kylie."
"What were Kylie doin' by the shop?"
"She were waitin' for Kelly."
"Oh......Is Kelly still goin' out wiv Nayfun?"
"Nah, she dumped Nayfun las' week. Now she's goin' out with
Ky-y-y-yle."
"What did she dump Nayfun for?"
"Oh, she said 'e wasn't normal."
"In what way?"
"'Is name didn't start with a K....")
