Sunday, 23 November 2008

Oh England, My Lionheart

So this is what we returned to the UK for. Sunday 10.14 am. 0 C (or 32 F); either way it is freezing, literally. Fortunately you can't see (or feel) the wind or the freezing rain. It even started to snow at one point. The best word to describe the conditions is 'miserable'. It was cold watching; the guy in jeans and wellies in the foreground decided to jog a couple of laps just to keep warm. Feet were wet and frozen. Hands tingling cold. It would have been even colder playing; shorts and all.

This is London Road, George's team. They beat London Colney, 2-1. George played his best game yet for them. We went straight off to watch Ollie's game afterwards.

This is Jill dancing at home in an attempt to get warm.

In contrast here is some cold US weather. This is really cold but you would never say it was miserable. It is one of my favorite winter pictures. By total coincidence, it was also taken on a Sunday morning, one minute later, at 10.15 am, but in February not November. It is 0 F. Proper cold. No grey clouds. No rain. Ski-ing not soccer. I am going to miss US winters.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Yay, George!!

No, Christian, you are not going to miss USA winters. It is already cold and you're just misremembering how cold it really is....

In fact, all of Chappaqua is busily looking for housing in St. Albans....see you around the pub as soon as we get there...

Kym

Christian Barnett said...

OK, so I will only miss the snow-cold bits. Well, OK, the ski, sled, snowball snow-cold. Miss you guys though. And that isn't season dependent.