Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

By the time you read this I may have been proved wrong and made to look a fool, but forgive me for asking...where's the snow?

 Apparently, according to the media, it's been snowing for days, if not weeks and Britain is currently in the midst of a Siberian-like winter snap. Is it? Really? I know its cold, but here in Barrow, I've yet to see a single bit of the white stuff fall from the sky.

 Admittedly there was some hail a couple of days ago, but as of yet, we've had no snow at all, and yet Dalton, Ulverson and the surrounding areas, (as well as most of the country) has had it. I'm jealous. We have the cold, so why can't we have the snow as well?
It is at this point, I realise I probably sound like a big kid, (I am.) but then again what’s wrong with wanting to have a bit of natures eye-candy? Like heavy, sudden downpours in summer, or random, heat waves in winter, I love a good bit of variable British weather. It reminds us that we're lucky to live in this part of the World-full of changeable, differing weather; but yet never too severe or life-threatening. We don't live in fear and all-in-all I say we are one of the luckiest countries in the World for weather-patterns and non-cataclysmic events. Plus when we get these snaps, it reminds us who's boss...and it certainly isn't the human race.

 We should never take things for granted. We're lucky to be here. If a few things were different back in the day, then we simply wouldn't exist. And that’s the wonder of nature. So all those people who moan about the weather conditions, well I just don’t see the point. The weather is great. Fact. Life's too short to worry or complain. True it's a great British staple, chatting about the unpredictable weather, but there's no need to get obsessed with it. At the end of the day it is just snow. We've had it before, and we'll have it again. If we get a cold snap for a month, like is being predicted, then so what? It happens.
 An even greater British trait is the ability to 'just get on with it' and so we should. Personally I wish it would snow right now, as it seems the whole country has snow, apart from us. And although I now don't think we'll get any, I'm sure we will in the future. (I hope!) I actually pity the Romans who apparently have gone 27 years without snow… some people actually growing up never experiencing it on European soil. Luckily we get it occasionally and hopefully also in future. And how can I end this blog after all that? Well I have to contradict myself and say bring on the summer!
 

Au Revoir