The newscasters are making a terrible fuss,
London commuters can’t get a bus.
Roads are packed with stationary trucks.
Lining the motorway like sitting ducks.
Why the panic and squeals of fear
It’s not unusual weather for this time of year.
When it’s winter we often get snow
You’d have thought by now, that people would know.
It’s not 30 below and no twenty foot drifts.
If you wait a few hours it usually shifts.
No wonder other nations just think we’re funny.
As we just sit back and cry for mummy.
Just before Christmas we should get ourselves ready.
No frantic rush just take it steady.
Check your car’s tyres and brakes.
Check the forecast for heaven’s sakes!
Don’t go on the road unless you can cope.
And if you do, don’t drive like a dope!
If you can’t drive and will not walk
Stay at home but PLEASE, don’t squawk!
Author notes
Why are some of us Brits (if I can still use that un-PC word) so surprised at snow in winter?
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your words are sooo true, we carry on as if life is going to stop!! i was brought up in dartmoor, you can call that real snow!! drifts that even then didnt stop us getting to school, here in derby we had a few inches and the whole city went into shut down crisis, its quite an embarassment as a nation dont you think? haha
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Another example of my 'venting' via poetry. Like you I was brought up to keep on going at times like this. If we couldn't get to school we'd all go out and clean paths, including our neighbours' . Nowadays if you do that and leave a bit of ice behind people sue!!!!
Jim
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lol, I don't know, don't ask me. I'm the type of person who'll walk outside in the middle of august and not care if it snows. Fantastic poem, I'm in love.
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I remember actually experiencing snow in the lake district in summer one year!
It is an old saying that "some countries have climates but Britain has weather and lots of it"
Jim
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I know I complain when it's too cold, yet I do know that cold and snow come with Winter and there is no use to whine. Would be worse if starts to snow in the Summer, and too weird if we temperature begins to rise to 25°c in the February, at least here.
Again well done showing your lovely Brits humour
Mari
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This sounds so true. I do love the snow, though the amount of times I've nearly fell on my arse the last few days is unreal.
Seems like Herefordshire for you.
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And they say the Earth is warming. I can't tell! LOL When I saw the snowfall on TV, I thought of all my AP friends who may have been stranded or snowed-in. I must be honest and tell you that my initial comment was; "welcome to the club". We have been dumped on all winter, since late November, still digging out... I hope you stay safe and warm.
Your poem made me chuckle. Do I suspect a bit of sarcasm? I agree with the poem. I do think all the fuss is unnecessary. It is presently five degrees here in Cleveland, Ohio with a wind-chill factor of 15 degrees below zero. What's all the fuss about?
Loved this!
Renee
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I would say more than a bit of sarcasm I had just been talking to Charley Noble who is also state-side and like you he was describing conditions that make what I was seeing seem just a seasonal flurry. Then I heard the news bulletin say how a couple of inches of snow had stopped the underground and all surface buses in London and this was the result. The fact that the broadcaster giving the horror reports of 'deep' snow was standing on a patch of snow with bright green grass showing through, next to a road with speeding cars on it didn't help my disgust.
Jim
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Very good advise
It fair to say to you who knows
Be careful out there when it snows
For if you are the best there is
There others who are not a whiz
To stay at home is not so bad
To sit fireside does make me glad
There are some chores that I should do
But sit and watch the windows view
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Alas no fireside adorns my room.
[Avoiding pollution from smoke or fume.]
But despite this fatal flaw
Your attitude is one to adore.
Thanks for reading and writing kind Sir.
Jim
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thank you for this enjoyable poem!
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You're most welcome. Thanks for reading my little rant at the ninnies up here.
Jim
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well if it wasnt for our unpredictable british weather most brits would have nothing to talk to stangers about in shops and bus stops
we ar ea nation of *do it tomorrow's* no matter what it is that needs doing you can be sure it can wait just one more day
what about christmas? it comes every 12 months to the day but we are never ready for it as it *comes around so quickly* hee hee
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Thanks for reading and writing.
Seeing the snow falling around here (Yorkshire) this morning I rang my 80 y.o. mum to see how she was. She, a non-driver, was about to set out for the shops!!
I scraped off the 5-6 inches of snow on the car and went and taxied her around for the morning. Then I saw the local news bulletins and had a good laugh.
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Sums us up perfectly.
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Thanks for reading and writing (and the clappy whatsits).
Jim
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Let it snow, let it snow ...
and off you go! A wonder-full, up-to-the-day submission & admission for the current weather in Brit-land! Thanks for sharing it all with rhyme and meter! j y
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Just wind me up and point me in the right direction
The meter is a bit off I fear
. Perhaps it's the cold
Jim
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