it's a grim struggle for existence here in the Great Wen! Just battled through eight inch drifts on my way back from Balham where I took on emergency cappucino and almond croissant supplies. But, to begin at the beginning....
With The Babe on her way to Balham tube in a black cab I turned my attention to The Kid. I figured that the embarrassment of being accompanied by a Rental all the way to school would be sufficient to keep her warm, and so it turned out to be. So, I stood out in the road and peppered next door with snowballs, challenging the young people to come out for a snowball fight, while The Kid scoured Bebo for Embarrassment Avoidance Advice. Falling short, she loped along beside me to school which was shut! Somebody is going to be demanding a refund! Happily her English teacher had turned up on his bike, so he and I talked bikes, while The Kid plotted our joint downfall. So we walked across Tooting Common, through Balham, along Wandsworth Common and over to Battersea so that she could join a hurriedly convened relief operation to look after B***** whose father, a Tory, thinks that turning on the heating will make children soft. He may be right.
The Commons were like a Breughel painting. Children being pulled on sleds, young people pelting each other with snowballs and Dads rolling round huge snowy orbs to make full height snowmen.
The Babe opened up the office, but, by ten o'clock, only four out of seventy had turned up (one producer had told her team not to go to work for Health and Safety reasons) so she was sitting in a cold office spitting tintacks and dictating formal warning letters like a gatling gun. I popped into a bistro before walking home, marvelling at the idiocy of people who thing a four wheel drive vehicle is immune to skidding. Whoops! The cat, having made a brief foray into the New White World has crawled under his blanket, and is having none of it.
All is well. I'll go down to my mother's this in a while to check on the temperature of the house, and then tour around looking for a sled...
So I got in the office and there are only maybe 10 people out of 70 there. They have said they may close the office at midday as more snow is expected. 
