Greetings from what can now definitely be described as Snowy Portsmouth, even if you've been up since 8 O'clock! Having had up to 6 inches of snow the chaos that is described as THE BIG FREEZE has resulted in missed and cancelled seminars, and an extra day in bed for myself whilst I recover from the illness Curry World decided to give me. At the moment I have no idea if my 9 o'clock seminar will be on tomorrow morning, if I’ll be able to get a train home in the afternoon or if both might be cancelled leaving me with another day in bed... The uncertainty that snow seems to bring the UK. I can't help but think people in Finland, Norway, Russia and other Eastern European states will be laughing at the way we react, describe and behave when snow occasionally settles here in the UK, but what can you do?
In other news, today we lost the bid to host the world cup in 2018 and embarrassingly we came at least 3rd behind Spain/Portugal and Russia, 2 countries that barely bothered to report it on their respective news channels whilst our media has spent half of their time reporting the bid and the other half sabotaging it (with the odd breaking news story about snow), and this just serves to prove we may as well not bother. The nation was behind it, the government was behind it, the royal family was behind it and the golden-boy of English football gave a stirring speech too whilst the Russian president couldn't be bothered to make the journey and they still won. A lesson to be learnt from this saga, don't try to hard, don't get our hopes up and certainly don't let the press or television companies get involved because to them viewers and readers are more important than national success.
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