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Back in 1908, Swindon was inundated with 15 inches of snow. Thats more then we got yesterday. The result of all those warnings of blizzards and sub-zero temperatures resulted in this picturesque scattering of snowflakes.

 

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This does in happen Swindon - a couple of decades ago there was a country wide snowfall over Britain. Drifts six feet deep cut off entire communities and made travel all but impossible. In Swindon, not a single snowflake. I would love to know why Swindon so rarely gets snow. Is it a hot place to be perhaps? Certainly not at the moment. It is genuinely cold.

 

Britain gets laughed at for its absolute inability to cope with anything more than three snowflakes in one place. One snowfall and the entire country falls apart. Yes, we're dunces when it comes to winter. But then, since we so rarely get one, is it fair to blame us?

 

Conversation of the Week

On my way home from a hike in local countryside I happened upon a woman who was about to take a photograph of a tree bud. I stopped and said "I've taken some daft pictures in my time but that talkes the buscuit"

 

She laughed and we got talking. A newbie to Swindon (You can tell, she likes it here), she has nontheless come to grief against the 'can't do' attitude of local garages. You have my sympathy. Apparently today she has to fix her camper-van, drive to work in Newbury, then attend a job interview in Portsmouth. With all the snow that fell over the last two days? You wait until you leave Swindon. Good luck.

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I heard that it's like fall most of the year in England...cold, damp, windy, foggy, cloudy, even rainy. No real winter, but no real summer, either. Sounds at least true for Swindon?

 

Today it's hazy here in Baghdad-by-the-Bay; the fog didn't quite want to leave, but it didn't quite feel like sticking around, either. It's our last day of sun for a while...supposedly we'll get a nice watering over the next few days. We really need the rain, but who knows if we'll get enough to stave off a drought. I'm pessimistically optimistic.

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Oh we do get summers! maybe not tropical hot, but certainly sweltering for us Brits. Yes, our winters are more usually an extended Fall, and thats the country as a whole.

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