Snow Day

No good Blogger could let today pass without reference to what Londoners have deemed 'Snow Day'. In my four years living in London I have never seen more than a sprinkling of snow and according to the news this much has not fallen for 18 years!

I didn't quite realise the extent of the disruption to transport until I heard that all buses had been suspended, no buses in London is the equivalent of closing the roads in any other townor city which doesn't rely on public transport, even though the tube was generally running, many people need a bus to get to the tube station, so in short, anyone needing to make a journey was going to have limited success.

Nevertheless, ignoring advice not to travel unless it was a necessity, I decided to make my way to Hampstead Heath using the Overground which was generally working well. Unfortunately, as my train pulled into Highbury & Islington we were evacuated because it had set on fire! I'm not quite sure how it had managed to do this on the snowiest/coldest day London has seen... but TfL never ceases to amaze!

Anyhow, all in all, a terrific day, many people and children who didn't make it to work or school were out in force, people were happy and talking to each other, two things quite untypical for London and the inventiveness of some sledges people had created were top notch, my three favourites were: 

a) a dustbin chopped in half 

b) a lid off the recycling box 

c) an estate agent to let sign 

I've attached a few links to pictures throughout (I did try and include them in the blog, but either I'm rubbish or my Mac didn't want to let me do it). I'll also use this as the moment to unveil my Picasa Web Albums! Unfortunately my camera battery was dead, so all of the HH photos are on my average iPhone camera. Please feel free to have a look at any of my other albums!

I hope whatever the weather is in your area you are enjoying it to the maximum! It doesn't happen that often... so enjoy it, have some fun! 

The Next Steps

So, a few days into Blogging and I'm having fun.

Admittedly this is only Blog Two and I did intend Blog Two to be on the subject of the progressive London conference I went to, but I have yet to have time to write that... tomorrow... fingers crossed.

So why I am having fun? Well, not only did I step into the brave and bold world of blogging on Sunday, but I also discovered I already had a You-Tube Channel, resurrected my Picasa account, thanks to Twitter follower Rob I discovered Jing and whilst browing the iPhone App Store I found Evernote. 

My You-Tube Channel is still in a very basic stage, I've just added some old videos to see what it can do and I've spent the evening mass uploading photos to Picasa to have a play with editing and organsing tomorrow... now I've got a reason to photograph and also video I'll make sure I carry my camera around with me much more. As an aside, has anyone got a Flip ? I was tempted a couple of weeks ago but didn't buy, I do have a perfectly fine digital camera, but, they are just erm, quite cool?!

Once I've got my head around YT and Picasa a bit more I'll post links and probably manage to somehow involve them in this very blog!

Let me know if you are using any 'new web' applications, either top tips for the ones I mentioned or any you find really useful (what is even the correct name for things like this now? 2.0, social networking, sharing!?).

I do have to admit that I have no actual time on my hands, my final ten weeks of University, started, errrr, today... but I'm having so much fun learning I just want to keep on playing with this technology!

Happy Monday!