Our plane landed in London at 7:30am on Tuesday, Feb 3.
We got out of the airport and onto the tube at about 8:30am
We got off the tube at our station at about 10 am.
We got home stortly after that and slept until around 4pm.
London got a bit of snow, but the country as a whole, and people as individuals don’t know how to cope with it very well. In Canada the amount of snow that fell would have been a non event, but here because of the rarity, and lack of preparation / resources / knowledge, most of the country was apparently shut down for the day.
Our backyard, the day after the big snow
I see in the paper that 40% of the garbage that was supposed to be picked up since the start of the week hasn’t been yet, since the garbage trucks can’t go down many streets, since they are still too icy. Also, some garbage trucks have been taken off duty and are being used to lay down grit. Now rats and foxes are scavenging and starting to “cause problems”
No one on our street seems to have thought to clear the snow off the sidewalk, and so it all got trampled down and turned to ice. This makes walking up and down the street fun, since there is a hill on our street. We have been walking down the middle of the road, since that is clear, but usually have to move to the side a couple of times for cars to get past.