Snow. It's a simple meteorological phenomenon which can be handled. It's weather – and not extreme at all that. So, while a cowed English nation collectively shudders awaiting the Met Office's next report of Siberian cheer, council gritters line the roads with salt and anxious press officers tweet that something is being done.
Diary thinks such behaviour pitiful, but not as pitiful as the defence of Abominable Snowmen. Sightings of men in high-visibility vests allegedly demolishing snowmen and igloos in parks around the country sparked predictable outrage in the national press that only hard-hearted council jobsworths could be capable of such outrages against natural spontaneous joy.
