No, I mean it’s really snowing. I’m at home now because I physically can’t get to work, and even if I did I’m not sure there would be anyone there to actually open the building.
The snow outside my window is about five inches deep and is still going.
Snow in London? Wow. Pretty cool. How are the Londoners enjoying it?
I was out in Clapham last night, an area with a lot of visiting young Aussies and South Africans, and they were going bananas for it!
Most Londoners look exactly the same as usual, IMHO, trudging around miserably. As if it snowed on purpose purely to irritate them personally. Or is that just me? 
We’re snowed in here, in the sense of ‘don’t travel if you don’t have to, it’s not worth the delays and the hassles’ which, let’s face it, is as extreme as I may ever see it here! I’ve just heard, though, that they’ve closed my Uni today - and I’m due there tomorrow for my weekly lectures. Now, obviously I don’t give a monkey’s if the snow keeps me off work, but don’t take away my Uni Tuesdays!
(Depressingly my beloved daughter, the 2 year old light of my life, has decided she HATES the snow - so I’m building the snowman, she’s watching me from the threshold and muttering about the cold… clearly switched at birth).
Firstly, 5 inches of snow and the country goes to hell! Seriously, the British need to know what is cold! I walked from Temple Place to Farringdon in the snow last night. No problemo. But quite a people passing by thought I was a nutter.
Secondly, ITS BEAUTIFUL.
Round here (SW fringes of London) the Brits seem to being enjoying the snow. People merrily bombarding my car with snowballs as I drive past. Nobody seems to be at work, they’re all outside playing in the snow.
I did get into work, but it took a couple of hours and there was nobody else there. Quite a nice little adventure picking one’s way through almost impassable roads, as they were at 8:30am - because of stranded trucks as much as the snow (Tesco truck drivers seemed particularly inept, or maybe they just have more trucks).
As for “how come a few flakes of snow bring the country to a standstill?”, come on - this is as heavy snow as I’ve ever seen in Britain, and it would make no economic sense to have the kind of infrastructure that you need to deal with this if it only happens once a generation.
I was feeling sorry for everybody until I read the third paragraph - Four inches?!? Are you shittin’ me? Four inches of snow and the south-east shuts down? You guys could take the blitz but you can’t take a little dusting? Pah! Wimps! Even the wussies here in Toronto can handle more than that. Come to where I grew up in Manitoba, see what snow is really all about.
Four inches.
It’s more like ten inches here, and counting. I know that’s still not much to you, but here we get pretty excited if snow settles at all.
Actually it’s quite a bit more than four inches now. In Woking there is 35cm (14 inches), many other parts have 8-10in.
But no, the southeast hasn’t “shut down”. Roads are largely clear now, and people are in work.
Edit: what Xim said. And why doesn’t quoting work any more?
Think the database has gone tits-up.
(Probably caused by the snow.)
People are in work in London - how? Even now vast swathes of the tube system aren’t working, all of the train lines are experiencing delays and only a portion of the bus routes are going. The message continues to be “unless your journey is urgent then stay at home”.
That’s not been my experience - everyone seems happier, smiling at each other in the street, chatting on the tube - or in my case, while standing outside the tube waiting to see if they were going to let us in.
They didn’t, so I came home. I am LOVING the snow, it’s like the best Monday ever. It looks so pretty, I’m warm and cosy, I’ve just eaten a yummy bowl of home-made pea and ham soup, I have an equally delicious sort-of beef stew simmering in the over, and my husband’s just come home so I’m hoping I can persuade him to come for a walk with me and build a snowman. 
I am super jealous! I love the snow and every time there is a flurry here I run around outside like a nutball and play in the snow. Everyone else thinks I am crazy for enjoying the winter weather. I am kind of sad that it is warming up outside to get ready for spring.
I agree, I’ve never seen so many cheerful people. Just been in the local park, it’s like someting out of a Christmas movie. Loads of people having wholesome family fun, dogs rolling around in this strange white powdery stuff lying on the ground, etc.
Ah well, enough gazing out at the winter wonderland… back to “working from home”. Next on my to do list, a couple of rounds of toast and I think I’ll watch Countdown.
Maybe they did that thing where you put one foot in front of the other, repeatedly? 
Must just be the misery-guts round my neck of the woods then!
Oh yes, that’s right, I should walk the 15 miles from my house to work. In the snow. Both way.
I think it’s the people interviewed and the media folk–they seem crabby to me. Or at least put out. The videos show people having a good time–and why not? Snow is great. I love winter. (really!). It makes a change from the raw damp that is London this time of year.
Sucking on a piece of damp cloth
It’s pissing it down now. Oh well. Solid sheet of ice to chip off the windscreen tomorrow, I suppose…no, wait, the blanket I left on is last night is still there! 
If you’re not used to snow, you should know that walking can be dangerous in the snow, or rather in the ice that so often accompanies it. It’s easy to slip and fall when you’re walking on ice. I slipped and almost fell on some black ice on the sidewalk in front of my house this morning. You can be seriously injured or even killed by slipping on ice.
You can have ice over or under snow, too, and that’s also dangerous. We had some ice with snow on top of it here last week.