My Boyfriend Is A Twat » snow

This isn’t funny anymore.

Zoe — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:20:48 +0000

I love snow, I really do, and the first time that it snowed this winter, back in December, made a picturesque little scene. And then it all died, the earth was soggy and people started backing onto my front lawn. Then it snowed again later in December, carefully avoiding any chances of a white christmas and this time, quite a lot fell, enough to screw up the trams until midday that Sunday morning.

And then that all died too.

About two weeks ago we woke up to yet more snow, although it was a pitiful amount yet very slippery. And this morning, we have yet another coating of snow, the fourth time this winter, and this simply doesn’t happen in Belgium. It’s either once or never. It’s a bit of a pathetic fall but it doesn’t look like it’s finished yet, and what’s worse is the fact that it’s freezing outside.

But it’s all my fault.

Yesterday, when standing against the sink trying to find out where I was getting stains from the spag bol sauce I checked to see if my snow drops were pushing through, and sure enough, there were hundreds of little stems under my hedge. So I thought to myself “snow drops look so pretty when there’s snow on the ground.”

And now there is. Please don’t hate me Belgium, although I suspect you already do. Tatiana obviously does as she found my box of All Bran hidden away in the garage, so I couldn’t deny her a hearty breakfast full of good, solid fibre to get her bowels functioning. Dammit.

Just look at the snow and think how pretty it is, what a wonderful excuse not to go into work by car today – public transport is great. But please don’t hate me – at least not too much.

And I promise not to talk to my plants again.

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From quiet homes and new beginnings…

Zoe — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:00:14 +0000

We had snow at the end of last week and even more on Friday night. The blizzard on Sunday kept us indoors as there was so much snow falling that taking photos would have meant risking our cameras, not to mention the freezing temperatures. Tatiana has “borrowed” my gloves and welly boots which is a pain in the arse, to say the least, but the weather conditions were in my favour as it meant keeping the Twat indoors so as to help me set my blog up on WordPress.

The move has been a longed-for project, but I was afraid of losing all my comments at Haloscan. It appears that they have all managed to move over, including 20,000 triplicates or so, but I think that Andy has managed a good job – we just need the odd tweak here and there. Andy Ramblings has been gracious enough to host this on his server and add his extensive IT knowledge when Andy was up against a wall, so I thank them both.

I’m pleased with the result and extremely annoyed with Haloscan that this ever had to happen at all, but there you go. I’m not the only one to be moving over here as a result of Haloscan selling to JS-Kit, and it will take me a while to learn this new template which is far more complicated than Blogger, but I will, one day, manage my entire site all by my very self.

Well, both Andys hope so.

And so here I am, finally. I’m trying to get rid of 1000 comments a day and am doing quite well so far, although I shall probably be unemployable due to RSI.

Hoping that none of you are stuck in the Eurotunnel or on a Eurostar and that you all have lovely holidays. I shall continue my job-search after the last interview sunk, as I guessed, try and brave the weather and get 3 christmas presents and spend the holiday as a couch-potato.

It’s almost certain that I shall blog, too.

Happy holidays

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Alert: Belgium has moved to Canada.

Zoe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:12:59 +0000

Holy smokes, we have real snow. Well, a blizzard, actually. I’ve not heard a single tram go by and after a look I could see about 5cms of snow on the tram tracks. This is the first time in the 16 years that I have lived in this house that this has happened. I’m also a bit worried as Hermie’s heating bulb blew last night so I’ll have to move his cage next to a radiator until I can get a new one.

I’ll try and take pictures later on – the snow would ruin my camera if I tried now.

I’ll just chase that moose out of the garden first.

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