Londonistan. Not.
Feb. 2nd, 2009 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksAnyhoo, this was the view from the window this morning:
It won't be long before the phone-ins are full of people asking, in their profoundly regional way, "Why does bad weather always get so much more publicity when it hits London?" They appear to forget that the floods in Yorkshire and Gloucs/Worcs in 2007 got a fair amount of publicity. I sometimes get the feeling that non-Londoners would only be happy if the BBC declined to cover any bad weather in London at all.
At last there are some studies going around about how the white working class in the UK has become the new "unrepresented" section of society. In addition, the white working class in London are doubly hit, because they get no sympathy from the white working classes in the regions. Because, as is the way, it's felt that the streets down here are still paved with gold. Well, at the moment, it's hard to tell, because they are all covered in white.
Lewisham Hill is half-impassable at the moment. Any car trying to get up it gives up fairly swiftly.
I had intended to try to struggle in, but then I realized that this really was irrational. Just being "one of the few" to make it in might have been good gor office kudos, but would have been a totally stupid waste of my time. This, after all, is what my home office computer is FOR.
So I'm using it.
Update 07.45 am: Rush Hour, Lewisham.
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It won't be long before the phone-ins are full of people asking, in their profoundly regional way, "Why does bad weather always get so much more publicity when it hits London?" They appear to forget that the floods in Yorkshire and Gloucs/Worcs in 2007 got a fair amount of publicity. I sometimes get the feeling that non-Londoners would only be happy if the BBC declined to cover any bad weather in London at all.
At last there are some studies going around about how the white working class in the UK has become the new "unrepresented" section of society. In addition, the white working class in London are doubly hit, because they get no sympathy from the white working classes in the regions. Because, as is the way, it's felt that the streets down here are still paved with gold. Well, at the moment, it's hard to tell, because they are all covered in white.
Lewisham Hill is half-impassable at the moment. Any car trying to get up it gives up fairly swiftly.
I had intended to try to struggle in, but then I realized that this really was irrational. Just being "one of the few" to make it in might have been good gor office kudos, but would have been a totally stupid waste of my time. This, after all, is what my home office computer is FOR.
So I'm using it.
Update 07.45 am: Rush Hour, Lewisham.
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Date: 2009-02-02 10:57 am (UTC)Bad weather?
Poor lamb!
Try living in a house with 2 feet of snow on an Irish mountainside with shops 20 miles away and nothing for heat but what you can cut and burn for yourself.
I always wonder how Londoners would react to empty shops and no utilities. The liberal types would host discussion groups whilst quietly wasting away and the rest would hack each other to death for the last pot noodle.
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Date: 2009-02-02 11:01 am (UTC)PJ