On Snow and other Marvels

I have been avoiding the news for the past week again, because I am feeling a bit of outrage fatigue again. But, if unless you have been living under a rock, you may have noticed that the UK had a little snow storm this week.

I was lucky enough to be working with a customer in London on Tuesday when the snow started, and found myself constantly distracted. Growing up in the Southern Hemisphere, my exposure to the white stuff has been very limited, and I have never really experienced a full blown snow storm.

We woke up on Wednesday morning to a scene from Narnia.

I travelled up north for a customer visit on Wednesday evening, much against advice from others and common sense. And while I was a little worried about being stranded in the middle of nowhere, I really enjoyed the adventure of travelling against the odds. The journey felt like one of those going home for x holiday movies, and I did provide me with the opportunity to take some more great photos

By Friday, it had been snowing for a few days and our housing estate was an absolute wonderland with enough snow for a little snowball fight.

We really enjoyed playing the snow, but were grateful when the snow stopped falling and melted away by Saturday afternoon. It has been a great distraction from everything else at the right time for me.

I’ve made a point of watching each of the Marvel movies in the cinemas as they were released, but unfortunately missed Thor: Ragnarok last year. Which is a pity, because it was directed by one of my favourites, Taika Waititi, who was responsible for one of my favourite movies, What We Do in the Shadows (if you haven’t watched it yet, what’re you waiting for – it is absolute gold!).

The latest installment in the Thor series was nothing short of magnificent. I loved the relationship between Thor and Hulk, and all the Loki karma. And well, Jeff Goldblum.

We’ve also been working our way through Marvel: Agents of SHIELD recently, as I discovered we can watch it on Amazon, and it has been really good to get immersed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, especially with Avengers: Infinity Wars just around the corner. And it has really cemented me as a Marvel fangirl.

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The view from the office. Yes, it is raining again.

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Some spectacular cloudage from my back garden again today. I love Summer for this reason, if nothing else.

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Spectacular cloudage, better captured. It is the 1st of December – we should be having sunshine and heat waves. Instead, we’re wearing jumpers and eating soup.

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Tried to capture the spectacular cloudage brought by today’s storm, but I am limited by the capabilities of my phone’s camera, so this is what we have then.

Can you believe there are only 33 days left of this year?

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Grey sunrise – not usual in Jozi at this time of the year (Summer)

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And then it rained. And there was much rejoicing.

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Yes, I know. Second weather moan in a row. Again – check out the ‘Realfeel’. This time, colder than it was in Salzburg. I mean, seriously.

Icy Jozi

Joburg has been uncharacteristically cold in the past couple of days, but the worst started on Wednesday, 16 June 2010. Quentin and I woke up fairly late, because it was a public holiday, and when we went outside for our morning smoke and coffee, we discovered that our little pool in the back yard had a layer of ice on top, thick enough to hold up Q’s lighter.

Of course, we had to play a little with the idea, and filled some containers with water, added dashes of food colouring to some, and left them on the table outside overnight.

 

Next morning, we had some mixed results. The water in the larger containers were frozen solid, while some of the smaller ones were completely unaffected. We have left the containers out every night since, and have noticed a repeat of the pattern.

And this is our weather forcast for the next 36 hours. Brrrr.

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Mist this morning