Day: 329, words:329

Oh the weather outside is frightful. But the fire is so delightful. And since we've no place to go. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!!

Obviously Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Micheal Buble had never visited the fjords in northern Norway and if they did, they would surely be singing make it stop, make it stop, make it stop. Having just finished a marathon shovelling session, the love of the white stuff is waning.

Tottenham football club is due to fly into these parts in a few days to face Tromsø in a UEFA cup tie and the players can expect to be playing on a white pitch with an orange ball. There have been quiet whispers of the dreaded 97 winter, which coincidentally was the last time a London club was in Tromsø. On that particular occassion, it flopped down, bringing visability to a minimum, allowing the lowly Tromsø team to defeat reigning FA cup champions Chelsea 3-2. After witnessing 90 minutes of the orange ball being ploughed through the snow, occassionally being squeezed into the net, the losing manager Ruud Gullit pronounced "This is not football". The match remains an historic highlight in the town known as 'The Paris of the North'. With similar conditions being predicted for Thursday evening, let's hope the result is the same.

The conditions have become a massive inconvenience for dozens of travellers trying to reach their destinations. Closed roads, mountain passes, airports and cancelled boats have forced many to remain in limbo, forced to find emergency accommodation or even camp out in the local waiting area outside of the closed kiosk. Students have been unable to return to their studies and doctors have been stranded after been flown around the country in search of a safe airport to land at. But as the saying goes...'we know where we live'. So there really is nothing else to do but get properly dressed, gravel your shovel and get to work.

 

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