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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Antarctica

ByGwyn Fisher
me and the missus
Minutes before my fisheye lens frosted over completely...

I woke up at 7.30, ran to the window to see if it had snowed yet, saw it hadn’t and went back to bed feeling thoroughly crestfallen. An hour later I put the coffee on and saw that flakes of snow the size of old pennies were coming thick and fast and there was at least an inch covering the garden. I waited for DrSita to surface so she could share the sight of Atticus’ first encounter with the elements and then played around for 10 minutes in the garden. La Doctora shot a fair few photos of us which I made into a collage… I chucked a snowball and he pretty much swallowed it whole then started trying to munch through the rest of the garden. Hope he didn’t bury his bone from yesterday too deep ‘cos he’s going to need a pickaxe/ pneumatic drill to get through the earth again.

It was still snowing an hour or so later so I thought, sod it and headed out on me own with me camera, two pairs of socks, pajama bottoms and trousers and two jackets and still got cold. But it was more than worth it, lots of people were out with dogs/ sledges/ kids/ combinations thereof and then I chanced upon a steam train pulling into the station and got a few nice shots. I took a LOT of photos today and don’t want to flood Flickr just yet so I’ll upload them in drips and drabs over the next few days.

We took Atticus out for a walk and let him off the lead in a park which is usually full of squirrels and has cars driving past, today it was perfect because there was nothing whatsoever to chase so he just ran around investigating where the other dogs had been. We fancied another coffee so we dropped ‘Cus back at the house and nipped off to Twin Paradox, the physics-themed coffee shop near our house.

I had to return a couple of DVDs (Man on Wire & Wanted) so I made another trek outside and it’s bloody freezing. Really freezing. Montreal freezing. The news says with the windchill it’s zero F at the moment. Which is… hang on I’ll google it… -17°C (¿¡?!) . Well that would explain why I couldn’t feel my fingers when I got home.  I really should have bought gloves… It’s worth it though. I loves the snow see.

Righty, time to do tomorrow’s Atticalendar…

6 Comments

  1. Oliver Postgate would have loved it- died two days ago. Fans of Ivor, Noggin, the Clangers etc have had a greatexcuse to re-view old faves.
    And snpwy Portland sounds great- for a while. Hope services don’t use it as an excuse to grind to a halt, as here…
    Looking fwd to more pics.

  2. Ah lovely (no la congelada, si no la nevada) ok, there, you wanted some snow!
    p.s hope the address was correct 😛

  4. Well Dad, the plastic pipes froze outside and so we had a small river flowing through the basement, but I rang the landlord and he talked me through turning off the mains… The bin men haven’t turned up yet though. And I don’t blame them. Yep, sad news about Oliver Postgate, but his legacy will last for generations

    Ale, THANK YOU for the regalos! Luego subo video del Atticus con su nuevo juguete 😀

    Mario, les cuidaremos 😛
    ‘Cus nomás tiene su gorrito de Santa Claus, y cuando puede lo quita. Es friolento El Sr.Taco?

  5. de hecho si, el año pasado no le pusimos sweter, como era un cachorrin se la paso todo el tiempo bien tapado en algun cuarto, pero este año si lo vimos temblar un par de meses (el pobre tiene poco pelo). Fueron tres intentos:

    1) comprado por necesidad, por que si andaba medio tembloroso, el modelo fue Kitsch/Gay
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_munoz/3063247033/

    2)El dos no lo tengo en foto, pero era onda Escocesa, y lo deseche por quedarle un poco grande.

    3) la tercera fue la vencida, un modelo raperon…
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mario_munoz/3100023819/

    Sobre lo del frio…. dicen que el Tquila es buen remedio para eso, no?

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