Mentalechoes

Coming from Bris-vegas we know about snow on a conceptual level, much like we understand that protons are subatomic particles, and that women can’t drive (heh heh… sorry, cheap shot I know :-). We even used to create snow as kids by opening up the freezer door and scraping a fork over the frozen condensed bits on the sides. You had to be quick though because invariably this artificial snow would melt almost as soon as it hit the linoleum floor, leaving just a big wet puddle that would have mum screaming at you to clean it up roooollll fast! So living in Europe is something that is pretty amazing for me when we get to that time of the year when it does snow for real… like today.

Right now outside my windows, the whole landscape has this picturesque Narnia fairytale look to it, that is really quite beautiful. For me this is the real look of Europe; the ones that you hear about in stories and legends. When it’s very quiet late at night, I can almost pretend that I am in some kind of fantasy land… but the swedish bikini team girls never run out of the bushes and beckon for me to come away with them.

Now that I have my new central heater system I can honestly say that I like this time of year. It’s taken a while to come to this point. I think it took me about 3 years just to acclimatise to winters where it got colder than 15 degrees. Having cold winters really helps you appreciate warm summers with long grass and late light though! Bris-vegas has this constant temperature most of the year around so the summer doesn’t really mean as much as it does to us living in Europe I reckon.

Well one of these days I just have to get a digital camera so I can take some photos of this once a year phenomenon, because the snow here doesn’t last. Maybe a couple of weeks, so it’s worth enjoying now while we have it.

Hope all of you had a nice christmas and are having happy preparations for the new years eve party coming up!

Padwanna