Snow ball fights and hot chocolates

It has officially snowed in Surrey and it has snowed hard! When i woke up this morning there was a foot of snow outside and when i let my cat go out, she completely disppeared. Although I wasn't really up for going out I ended up heading out on a trek with Jess, Sammie and Leanne. Sledging was in order and a few snow ball fights on the way. I fell off the sledge a few times and one time even careered off the road a went straight into a snow bank. Not fun but i love the photo that Jess managed to take with Sammie just standing over me laughing.


College was cancelled which was annoying as it was meant to be our first day back. Its sad, I know, but I miss seeing people from college that I can't easily see outside of lessons. I am also relieved because lie ins are amazing and I'm not gonna get any once I'm back at college and I'm going to have constant work to do all the time.
But the snow didn't just effect Farnborough Sixth it managed to up root the whole of the UK with motorways being closed and everyone being told to stay indoors. Some places dont even have power, which is worrying because as I type the lights keep dipping. But we'll set up a campfire in the back garden i'ms ure if the heating fails.

I was linked to an article by the New York Times by a friend on facebook. It was only to show me that they had used a picture of Fleet Station (which is near to me) and a picture of Farnborough (where I go to college). But then I read the article which was written by an American journalist called Landan Thomas Jr. and was not impressed with the level of criticism thrown at the people of Britain. The article basically implies that Britain, London, especially cannot cope with the snow and over reacts. It then goes on to poorly try and explain our current political antics of Gordon Brown and the Labour government. But then the line "In a country where discussing the weather is a national sport," I become angry at the level of ignorence placed in the knowledge of our country, that we in fact are all from the 1930's and stand aroudn and talk about the weather. This image of a 1930's toffs and cockney londoners as being the only inhabitants of Britain was then heightened by him then saying how the press had used their headlines and stories to rile up and had "evoked the doughty, resilient Londoner during the Blitz,". To compare the snow to the Blitz in World War Two is insensitive and again ignorant!!
After reading that and then the rest of the article I was livid and had a good old rant to my mother and she just nodded along. And now i'm ranting on here. Sorrry!!

Anyway college is cancelled for rest of the week and I'm hoping to get a few more snaps on my vintage camera of the snow :) There is something so exciting about using film cameras and then waiting to get them developed and seeing photos for the first time :D

Laters xxx