Snow. Snow. and what snow??

Monday the 2nd of February was an amazing day to wake up! I have never seen so much snow as i saw that morning. The south of Britain, was covered in a white blanket. I felt like a kid again! I do no ever remember there being so much snow, there is a picture of me when I was about 3,sledging down my home street- which according to the news is about the right year for the last time we saw such a big snow storm.

For the past few days, the news has forgotten about the recession and all the bad in the world and has reported on the snow and how Britain came to a holt (which I will come back too). The pictures were full of happy children and parents playing in the snow. The whole country, generally, was on a high! The thing that got to me, was the next day when some parents were complaining that their children were not at school. Was it that they really cared about the school being closed? or simply that they didnot want to spend time with their children? I know this might seem a bit of a drastic comment, and very presumptuous, but it can not be ignored! Others that we talking were simply enjoying a well deserved day off with their children that they could give all their attention too; a day that was not spent cleaning or other work that may take over the weekends.

The snow seemed to be the uplift that this country needed.

Back to the holting of the country. The one thing that did seem strange was that a bit of snow falls and London stops all transport! No underground, buses or trains. Seeing an empty street on the television made it seem like the end of the world. An image from a zombie film even. In my home town, the buses stopped running until 3pm, and took another day to get them back to their normal running schedule. It all seemed a bit too silly. Other countries carry on as normal when they get snow, canada has a lot of it and others spend over half the year under snowflakes.

So what stopped the UK from operating as normal? I think it was just the surprise of it all- we never expecting the warnings to be true, as we have had so many in the past that led to nothing. Or that the country just simply did not want to work and had the perfect excuse not too.

There was more falling today, but further north, I was sad that it didnt fall here! I would like to have had another day where by I got to build snowmen and throw snow balls, but never mind. I am sure it will be back in another 18 years.

We may not have been prepared for it, but it fell in full force, and call me a 'glass half full girl' but I think it did the British public the world of good! For a couple of days, at least, we all forgot about the financial crisis and had something else to talk about, something to smile about and a little hope that the world is not against us and it will get brighter one day.