Weather news update

Due to heavy snowfalling the public coach that was going to take us into the heart of Dartmoor tomorrow has been cancelled. We'll be taking another bus instead (one which remains on the A-road. Hope they can handle it).
Long live British public (etc.)

Aahh!

I am going nuts! There is one absolutely indispensible book I need for my next essay, and guess what's the only place in the world where it can be found?

Right, in the library of Utrecht University: it's a 1977 dissertation by a Dutcher.

So now I seriously wonder why I have moved all the way tot Exeter to study the history of sexuality, while all my specialists are really in Utrecht.

Yep: lesson understood...

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240 schools in Wales have been closed due to snow. We "are being warned to expect further disruption" (channel 4 news).

Wodan must be playing games with us

I move to the subtropical part of the United Kingdom, the only place where palmtrees grow, the where temperatures rarely drop beneath zero... and instantaneously the coldest winter of the decade is heralded, and we wake up in the middle of a land covered in white: the fields, the trees, the roofs...
And tomorrow I've signed up for a long ramble through Dartmoor!

...Half an hour later...

This is an excerpt from the message I just received from the 'wandelclub':

"Dear OODS members

Owing to bad weather (including heavy snow) having been forcast, we may be making some alterations to Saturday's walk. There is a possibility that blizzards will occur on Dartmoor this weekend"...