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"Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall." -Franz Kafka

Friday, March 04, 2005

"I don't know whether the weather will change."

I've mentioned a lot of cultural differences in the UK, but the way that people deal with the different weather has been fascinating. I was watching a weather report on TV that mentioned that schools were closed across Kent, and they showed a film of kids sliding down a hill that was an equal amount white and green. Apparently 300 schools have been closed and the army has been called in to deal with a catastrophic situation that in Michigan is called "Thursday."

Check it out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4312903.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/03/uicy.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/03/ixportaltop.html

posted by Unknown @ 3/04/2005 07:16:00 am  

1 Comments:

  • At 3:42 pm, Blogger Steve said…

    LOL - this is good! To be fair to the cities and towns of England, though, they are easily overwhelmed, like towns in the southern US, because they just don't have the equipment necessary to deal with it. I admit they don't have a snow mentality, either ....

    I really enjoy reading your posts, not only because they're well written, but because Oxford is one of the few places in England I know! In fact, I brought my kids there last summer for a week. We did one museum, - they chose it - and luckily, they chose the natural history museum. Their favourite spots were the cockroach/beetle case upstairs, the beehive in the stairwell, the chest-of-drawers guessing game (on the left as you walk in) and the skeletons of present-day animals (which they also turned into a guessing game). I liked the emphasis on fossils found in the Oxford area and the whole Lewis Carroll/dodo bird sub-plot.
    I put a response to your food question on my blog.

     

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