I think this is an amazing picture. If you didn’t already know, Britain has gone Arctic this winter.
If you tune into a TV news channel, all you’ll find is reports of doom and gloom, treacherous icy conditions, bitter cold. It’s all negative, negative, negative. I’m no hardened fool, I understand that it’s difficult for the elderly to get out. Some people can’t afford to heat their homes and some people will be freezing to death. I feel for the homeless at times like this, where the hell do they go and sleep? Good grief. That is terrible. If we know of someone in trouble, we must step up and help. And in times like this, Britain changes and we all get that old ‘blitz spirit’ back where we come together as a community, a bit like after the tube bombings.
Personally, I’m enjoying seeing people going out and having fun. I live in an inner city, where no-one really talks to anyone else, but two days ago, I had a brilliant snowball fight with my neighbours whom I have never met. We laughed ’till we cried. We’re looking out for our elderly neighbours and there is plenty of hot cups of tea passed around to stranded drivers skiing down our snow deep hill in their cars.
Last February, the news channels were reporting doom and gloom in the form of a recession. Every day we were told by newscasters that we were all going to lose our jobs, possibly lose our homes and all our savings in what was going to be a great depression. It made for depressing news. It depressed the people.
Then the snow came and no-one went to work. Instead, they took a couple of days off from the jobs they had been told they were probably going to lose anyway and went and played with their kids in snow filled parks.
Oh did the newscasters change their tune when they realised the majority of people weren’t going to work! The economy was being hit by a national knee-jerk reaction of ‘Bugger You Then!’ All of a sudden news reports lightened up and started to comment how much fun people were having. The broadcasting doom and gloom was lifted for a while. And it was nice, even if it didn’t last long.
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