Weather Conditions and Public Transport

Two things the Brits just love to talk about, is the weather (it's snowing - 8 inches (20cm)) and the Public Transport (I call it shit but they call it 'disrupted')....

It started snowing here at the beginning of the week, even in London... this isn't a common occurrence.  Ahhh I hear you say how lovely, it makes everything look so pretty.  Yes it does indeed, it's a veritable freaking Winter Wonderland it's like being in Narnia without the talking lions and that goat boy (not the Bill Hicks one, the Pan dude). But what Narnia has that London doesn't is a good system of transport, sure it's the Ice Queen's sled but it's on time and her reindeer are currently without a union. 

(Funnily enough being a Brisbane girl who saw my first 'real snow' in my twenties, snow used to really excite me.)

London with snow just shuts down it literally takes double to triple the amount of time to get anywhere if you can get there at all.....

My British mate used to rave about how amazing London public transport was 'the best in Europe' he would say.  This just floored me as this guy has travelled.....are you bloody serious???  Other European countries have a lot more snow than this and everything continues to run just all hunky dory...but oh no not the UK....

ha ha the bus isn't coming...

The things that cause transport to shut down in London are in no particular order: snow, rain, leaves, signal failure, the tracks being too hot oh and not to forget the Union strikes. They knew this snow was coming and said they had a 'snow plan in place', but then wouldn't you just know it....it was the wrong kind of snow.

Ok, so two concerning epiphanies out of this blog.

1. I have just talked about transport and weather for the entirety of it.  Does this mean I'm becoming...gag....British?
2. If we can't cope with a bit of snow how are we going to cope with real life serious stuff like alien invasions, asteroid collisions and machines taking over the world?

More concerned about the British thing to be honest.