Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Lawrence, No Brits are not weather wimps at all we're just big kids who will take any excuse to take a day off work to play. Also good snow has become such a rarity in the UK we have to take our chances when we can. I live in South Devon and the snow amounted to 1 cm: it was a struggle to make a decent snowball. BWs Gordon Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:29:54 AM, you wrote: LZ> The news this evening was full of accounts of a "catastrophic" LZ> snowstorm which buried London in a foot of snow. All activity in LZ> London came to an abrupt halt save for snowball battles amongst LZ> bankers and stockbrokers who couldn't get to their usual jobs of LZ> cheating the public. This verifies my opinion that most Brits are LZ> weather wimps. A foot of lake effect snow falls every winter day LZ> before lunch in upstate NY, Vermont and New Hampshire. Buffalo and LZ> Syracuse had over 100 inches so far this year and Punxitawny Pete LZ> promised another 6 weeks of winter to come. LZ> Can some UK photographers brave the snow with their Leicas and LZ> document the trials and tribulations of snowbound Londoners? Perhaps LZ> Gee Bee can show pictures of cross country skiers in the Lake Country. LZ> Larry Z LZ> _______________________________________________ LZ> Leica Users Group. LZ> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Best wishes, lindnich mailto:lindnich@tesco.net