Batten down the hatches

Just thought i could simply not record this, as i must say it is very exciting along with being quite serious.

Was sitting in the Seomra na Gaeilge with a nice cup of tea (trying to warm up after making numerous snow angels with mates). Suddenly the phone beeped and my mom had just txt me with the simple (yet pretty scary) message " come home as soon as you can". Didnt know what was going on. I rang her and apparently the AA roadwatch had issued a big warning asking anyone who can return home to do so as soon as possible, as there is going to be around 10 centimetres of snow falling on the east coast tonight, starting from about 5pm.

On the way home the talk on the radio was all "batten down the hatches people". Scary or what?!?!

So here I am, sitting in front of the nice fire, cat on the couch, mother with the knitting..... wow when did we turn into such a culchie irish family ha.

I am just really happy to hear something on the radio other than the words IMF and recession. If I hear another mention of 4 year austerity plan or the renaming of Anglo Irish Bank (like that is going to fix things) I will scream, literally ha. Tubridy has the right idea, concentrate on anything but the whole economic thing.

But enough about all that rubbish, its not the right talk for a snowy, white, quiet evening like this. Reminds me of that lovely Guinness christmas advert. Here is the link. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWfdbYbDVzg

"Walking in a winter wonderland"

Wow, talk about winter wonderland.

So much for the emerald isle, we are now a white wonderland, as every surface is completely covered in snow. We have reports of Dublin City pretty much at a halt as the snow just gets worse and the air gets colder. I woke this mornin to find my back garden looking like a scene out of "the day after tomorrow". Every surface was frozen, even the inside of the shed. It was like that scene where the cold air creeped across and sucked up everything in its path in a sheet of hard ice. It was so beautiful though to see the cobwebs slowly blowing in the breeze as they are frozen and shiny on the garden swing. Everything was scarily quiet and slow.

Very few people in college today too. I can imagine its due to all the people on the radio giving advice along the lines of "dont go out unless its COMPLETELY necessary", scary really. Have to say though i think its a bit of an overeaction. I mean, England is in a terrible state, -15 to -20 most nights. But mainland europe deal with this every winter, and deal with it well. Typical irish, make a big hooha over a bit of snow.

Feel like i should say something about the lecture which I am sitting in, which i should be taking more notes on. But i think i will leave that til another time. Maybe later on.

A little bit of info

I suppose I should say who I am.

I am a NUI Maynooth student, Second Year, studying English and History. Not really too sure why I set this up, or what I am going to say on it..... But I suppose we will find out.

"That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know".