[garinda]

I was in London the last time it snowed in 1991. It is unusual, as most winters we never even had a frost, and my non-hardy plants such as geraniums, stayed happily out in the garden year after year.

In 1991 I'd gone for a drink after work with my friend Sara. When we'd gone in Harry's Bar at sixish it was fine. When we left at about eleven the whole of Piccadilly was covered by about six inches of snow. It was magical, and everone was in a playful mood. There wasn't much traffic, but the buses and tubes were running as normal, as they were the next day also.

It was unusual, but the city coped, and carried on as usual.

Eighteen years later it seems sad that even though buses ran whilst the city was being Blitzed, this is no longer possible, and our capital city ground to a halt. A halt that will have cost the country many millions of pounds.

Some progress.