A mild winter

The second snowfall of the winter today. There was about 3 inches (10cm in new money) overnight and it’s still coming down heavily now (at 11.30am). Until today all the talk has been about how this is the mildest winter on record - which it has been.

Getting into work this morning was a nightmare. It took me nearly 2 hours to get to work I didn’t leave home till 9, knowing that things would be mental. (It’s usually a 45-minute journey by public transport or 35 by bike).

It’s amazing how nothing works properly at the merest sniff of bad weather in this country. Schools are shut, transport has largely ground to a halt, even the tube, which is (mostly) underground, isn't working properly.

Out the back window.

New Zealand studies

Getting the most out of your degree? If not, then perhaps this might be the thing for you.

Birkbeck College at the University of London now has a Centre for New Zealand Studies. The centre opens today, Waitangi Day (New Zealand’s national day).

Strange to think that a country of just 4 million people warrants an academic centre of its own.