Category: UK/England

This was my view on the way to work this morning.  Just getting light.  The moon up.  Nice and frosty.  Great time of the day.  It really makes me miss being in the woods.

At certain times of the year, the news is full of stories like “The Wrong Kind of Snow” or “Leaves Disrupt Rail Travel” or “Sun Delays Rail“.  Well, now there is another “wrong kind of sun” story:  a new building under construction in London (at 20 Fenchurch Street) is slightly concave.  It does what a shape like that does and focuses the sun onto a point.

Well, it turns out that in the fall autumn (and I would say in the spring as well) the building focuses light across the street.  It has even melted cars and cooked eggs.  I’m curious to see how this plays out.

Image from becky via flickr

On the way to work this morning

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_States

The horse-meat saga continues.  Earlier this year, certain burger patties were found to contain 29% horse.  Today it was announced that Findus brand frozen lasagne contains up to 100% horse.  If you live in the UK and like to eat boxed Lasagne and don’t like horse, then you should probably return your Findus brand frozen lasagne.

Image from s. bar via flickr

Isaac is 3 (we are having his cake today).  That means he can go to Small Land at Ikea!  Cyndi had a church thing this morning so I took them to Ikea.  They played for an hour while I had a tea and read.

Oh, by the way, did you know that Ikea has free refills in their restaurant too??

Well, it didn’t snow yesterday; however, we did go sledding/sledging.  Eventually, Cyndi will post the pictures…when she does, we’ll put in a link.  

Today, it started snowing in the morning about the time we left for Church and kept it up all day.  We got about another 2 inches on the ground and it is still snowing.  Perhaps we’ll get a foot over night  ;^)

Here’s a few pictures from a walk Lydia and I did this evening.  The rest are on flickr in our UKSnowpocalypse2013 set.

I got off work today early for the UKSnowpocalypse2013.  On my way home, I took some pictures.  The complete set is on flickr at UKSnowpocalypse2013.  Here are a few teasers:

Well, not really.  It started at about 7:45 on my way to work this morning.  Fingers crossed for loads!

[Update 2013-01-20 18:45:43]  Here’s links to other posts about the UKSnowpocalypse2013:

UKSnowpocalypse2013 — Pictures
Problems at Heathrow (LHR)
UKSnowpocalypse2013 — More Pictures

Image from Its.Sammieee. via flickr

Just saw this on the news here.  There was a helicopter crash in London.  For more information, check out Sky’s live update page on the incident.  You can also read this article on The Telegraph.