The day London stood still...

Productivity in London today was at an 18 year low. It hasn't snowed this much in London for 18 years. The entire bus system was suspended (for the first time ever), only the Victoria line was running in the Tube. London was absolutely paralysed by snow... the heaviest snow storm London had seen for 18 years meant that people couldn't or chose not to go to work... The mayor of London... BORIS Johnson declared that the congestion charge was also suspended to encourage people to get to work...

Coming from a country where snow is common it is incredibly entertaining to watch as the entire city comes to a grinding halt... Taking a promenad at lunch I walked through a park with no less than around 20 giant snowmen created all around and signs that others had been kicked over by young kids free from school... Every man "and his dog" (as the term goes) as the picture below shows was out building snowmen and playing in the snow... in our local convenience store, supplies had run out already at midday.. they had not received any new order because of the roads and thus people were fighting over bread...


The most incredible of these was the largest snowman I've seen... clearly a basketball player... the two on the left insisted that they had made it, but from the look in their eyes they were glory hunters who had just arrived and started telling people that they had made it, I think they had put the horns on the guy and thought that this was enough to justify being called the creator of
this monsterous snowman.


It also seemed as though everyone with a camera came out to take pictures... every person I passed had an SLR.. I shouldn't be talking here cause that exactly what I have but still...Taking photos of this rare occasion:-)

Walking back I wandered along the Canal with snow still falling...



The morning started late as I had been up watching the Superbowl... Sunday was really a Super Sports Sunday.. Australian Open tennis, Chelsea-Liverpool and the Superbowl... turned out to be a bad day for the teams/individuals I wanted to win. Wanted Federer, Chelsea and the Cardinals to win, and I got none of what I asked for... :-/ At least the first and the last were good games. I'll skip talking about the Tennis or Soccer and just focus on the Superbowl.

Here is one of the biggest annual sporting events held every year. What makes it odd is that it is a sport that only one country really plays (or at excels at) but yet gets a global audience. It is an incredible spectacle... Fireworks, confetti, big bands... before the game, they welcomed in the Crew of the flight that landed in the Hudson a few weeks ago... the Captain and the rest of the crew came in, stood there in the middle of the field just to receive recognition... its a sport event that is so much more than that... not to mention all the money spent on ads... I haven't had a chance to watch all of them yet but after having looked at around 15 this is the one I clearly laughed hardest at... :-)

Monster.com - Moose Head | Viral | SPIKE.com

I'll leave you with this today... because my head feels stuff... I think I'm getting a cold because I do not feel too good at all.. nor dos Anne so its going to be a lot of tea for us over the next few days...