Snow.

I want snow. Preferably a lot of it, and now. I want big, stupid, childish hang the consequences snow. Although that probably says a lot more about me than the weather.

The thing is, everything is different in the snow. And I don’t just mean aesthetically. The rules change when there’s snow. It gives us something new to deal with, a new challenge in our everyday existences that we’re not otherwise used to. For want of a better metaphor given the temperature connotations, it spices things up a bit- and I love watching people react to that.

Snow also gives you an excuse for almost anything. You can legitimately get away with not turning up to work, school, social engagements, whatever you like because of the snow. And no one can say anything. Leaves on the line always sounds weak, delayed trains are now too believable to be believable at all. But snow, no can dispute snow.

That said, I do walk to work, so I would benefit very little from this, were I to get my wish. So I think a tiny part of me, okay quite a big part of me, just wants to see what would happen. I’ve never lived in London before- this would be my first city snow in the nearly 5 months I’ve lived here. It seems unimaginable to me that a busy, unsleeping, be-suited city such as London could be felled by a mere snowflake or too. But it happens. It has happened- I’ve seen it on the news, time and time again.

 And now I really, really want to see it for myself. When news stations around the country show footage of ‘how the snow is affecting the capital’, I want to know that I’m there, I’m in it, I’m living it with everyone else.

Just for a day or two though, you understand. I don’t fancy having wet shoes for weeks on end. Although perhaps then I could just buy some wellies and invest in a warmer coat? See? This is what I love about snow. Regardless of snowmen, snowball fights and tearing about open spaces leaving snowy footprints everywhere, for a few days a year, you have to re-evaluate the tiny details of how you live your life. And, just for a few days, that can be really, really fun.