Mind How You Go
Blimey. I've just got back from a slip-slidin' trip across the park, where the snow is melting but there's still just about enough for a few brave souls with tea trays to try tobogganing down the slopes.The paths down the bottom aren't too bad but up at the top it's all compacted ice and really slippery. I didn't go a pearler but it was only because I walked flat-footed and very slowly, whilst being cackled-at by a whole tree-full of ring-necked parrots. They'll be laughing the other side of their beaks next month when anyone will be allowed to shoot them (though the question will be, of course, with what? Spud guns? Pea-shooters? As far as I know real guns are still illegal, even in South East London...)
A load of the pavements, too, are really icy - some on main roads.
I notice it's all turned to rain now - particularly yucky - but tonight they're promising sub-zero temperatures again tonight - so I'm guessing we'll have a lovely black-ice alert tomorrow.
Take care, guys...
Labels: Events, Greenwich snow
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
15:41
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I think we'll have more white stuff to deal with unless it turns back to rain later - tiping down in the Wharf now
Talking of ''going a pearler,''quite coincidentally the Pearly King of St Pancras was out by the James Wolfe statue skating ring yesterday. There's a photo here - scroll down past the bike stuff - http://deptfordmarmoset.blogspot.com/
Snowing like hell now, and it's settling
This is just not fair, Greenwich is getting snow for Christmas?, having moved to one of the top ten snowy countries in the world and....Snow North Soth East and West of us but none in Toronto....its a bloomin swizz...my cross country skis are all waxed and everything...
Lovely pics by the way Phantom : )
Benedict -
much sympathy, but I have friends in Tartu, Estonia, who have had blizzards and -20 temperatures for several days now, only to be told that all the snow will disappear on Xmas Eve :-{
That's taking the piss, really
Nothing to be envious of Benedict All bus routes were suspended at some time before 5 pm this evening, grid locked traffic and hundreds of people trudging the long miles home from North Greenwich station.
I 'went a pearler' this morning on the bridge over to Westcombe Park - which was like glass. Have twisted my ankle but had to hobble to work anyway...sob sob...
I do sympathize with all of you chaps doing "a pearler" (I have no idea what that is) but I still have a romantic vision of a white Christmas.
Yes the transport is very ill equipped there but you will be relieved to know that trains here do get stuck because of "leaves on the line" of which there is quite an abundance!
The correct spelling is Purler, which according to the dictionary is a 'headlong fall'.
My sympathy to those who have suffered, lets be careful out there.
I never knew that. Fascinating. Any idea of the etymology?
Sorry Phant, can't find the definitive origin of the word 'purler', although it is in use in Australia, where it means something excellent, as in cricket,a real purler of a ball. But it is not confined to cricket alone.
I only know of 'purl' as a knitting term - but I have no idea where that comes from either.
But thaks for putting me right. I hate rong spelllin.
mee two....
I was there on the same day as you, Sunday? and wondered as I was creeping across to your statue why they couldn't have put some salt or whatever on the ground. It really was a hazard. I only stayed for about 40 minutes before gingerly setting off on my bike down the avenue towards the heath.
Stephen
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