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My brother just hurt his wrist, we think it's broken and are trying to get him to A&E now, my next door neightbour has a black eye from a snowball and I am the cause of all of it!

Snow FTW*


*F*** The Weather

Lenoir wrote:*F*** The Weather

Offal the weather?

Seriously though, hope your brother is ok and it's nothing too serious

Just had a nightmare drive back from a gig. The morning rush hour will be awful I expect. Hopefully the boss will let me "work from home".

Hope your bro fixes up soon.

I'm supposed to be getting a train from "Back End of Nowhere, Carmarthenshire" to Swansea tomorrow at some point. Bearing in mind the trains are afraid of such painfully monstrous things like the mighty leaves...

(Currently watching Family Guy on FX+, must watch it more often...)

DenmarkKilo wrote:I'm supposed to be getting a train from "Back End of Nowhere, Carmarthenshire" to Swansea tomorrow at some point. Bearing in mind the trains are afraid of such painfully monstrous things like the mighty leaves...

(Currently watching Family Guy on FX+, must watch it more often...)

You'll be ok, unless its the 'wrong kind' of snow

I just emerged from my room at 3 am (reading not sleeping) to find the street covered with soft white snow. Living in London for the past ten years, snow has been a rare thing for me. I walked around for awhile; enjoying the feel of snow crunching beneath my feet and the beauty of the clean even whiteness (in my T-shirt no less) and then came to the forum to share my restored sense of child like wonder. Only to find that it has been nothing but a hindrance to those living in the real world. Ah well.

Think about various way to become rich with snow.

Somehow I've made it to work on time(ish) today!
Now here's just hoping I can get home!

As long as I don't have to get anywhere (and for the next few days I don't) I love snow - and the hysterical-running-around-with-our-heads-on-fire panic it generates on the news!

In the immortal words of Sir Dean martin... (all together now) ... "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..."

The snow also reminds me of the first half of Lion Witch & Wardrobe. Am I the only one who thinks Narnia seemed so much more wonderful and fun when it was snow covered. I remember as a child being very disappointed when all the snow in Narnia melted

Personally I love snow!! But unfortunately, the prospect of digging my car out in preparation for what promises to be a white knuckle, 200 mile, commute to work through the Cairngorms is filling me with a dark sense of foreboding.... (If I don't post for a few days send out the choppers!)

themagicwand wrote:The snow also reminds me of the first half of Lion Witch & Wardrobe. Am I the only one who thinks Narnia seemed so much more wonderful and fun when it was snow covered. I remember as a child being very disappointed when all the snow in Narnia melted

My disappointment at the snow melting was nothing compared to the dismay I felt at learning that the Narnia books were written as some sort of Christian allegory. That sort of stuff should be kept out of reach of children - and definitely far away from entertaining fiction!!

Yes, I also loved the recent movies, but I had to watch them with my subtext-blocking goggles on.

Yes I never really got the Christian sub-plot as a child and was quite surprised when I learned of it later in life. I watched the first narnia film but left it at that. I felt like I was somehow betraying Harry Potter by watching them.

It's a bit of snow, not even a lot of snow, but BBC News seems to think it's the End of Times.

My boss insisted I go into work this morning. That's the major drawback with being self employed and working from home.

Tomo wrote:My boss insisted I go into work this morning. That's the major drawback with being self employed and working from home.

That swine!

pcwells wrote:My disappointment at the snow melting was nothing compared to the dismay I felt at learning that the Narnia books were written as some sort of Christian allegory. That sort of stuff should be kept out of reach of children - and definitely far away from entertaining fiction!!

Yes, I also loved the recent movies, but I had to watch them with my subtext-blocking goggles on.

I don't see why, you didn't understand it as a child so there was no brainwashing going on. Pretty much all of C.S Lewises work had Christian subtext because he was christian it was important to him.

You'll notice how later on in the story there is this other god (a false god in Narnia) and there was this old man/creature who did good things in the false gods name and so got into Aslan's paradise, while there was some animals (I remember the cat but I cant remember what else) who got punished and sent away for doing bad things in Aslans name.

The point C.S Lewis was making was that it doesn't matter who you praise or what you do, if your good, god will reward you and if your bad he will punish you. He wasn't trying to convert anyone, but Christianity was real for him because it was his religion.

I for one am not Christian and so if I wrote stories they wouldn't be written with that world view. But saying (as, I assume, a non christian) that Narnia is somehow spoiled by the christian theme is the same as the Christians who complain about Harry Potter for the apparently demonic theme.

Are you saying the C.S Lewis, as a children's author, didn't have the right to be Christian? Would you have made this fuss if it had a Druidism subtext?