In over 100 years the London bus service has never been cancelled. Now we have Boris as our Mayor the buses can't even cope with snow. I don't completely blame Boris (although frankly I could easily), but I remember in 1991 when we had the last bad snow I got a wonderful old 36 Routemaster bus back from where I worked in Camberwell to New Cross Gate. Those were the days. A Routemaster could easily navigate the roads, and was much more robust compared to these flimsy new vehicles - particularly the dreadful "free" bendy-buses.

The Routemaster has made an appearance in the last few weeks though - one of ten designs on a lovely set of stamps from the Post Office. Sadly you never get to see them on mail now, but if you do visit a post office (and are in the UK) try to ask for the stamps. They also have the Underground Map, the Mini, Penguin Books, Concorde, the phone box etc. Wonderful! I shall be using them on mail at least.

It is rather lovely to have this amount of snow - the earlier estimate was 20cm, but I think it's rather more now - certainly in south east London. A bit of a nightmare getting in to work ... no buses (as outlined above) and a tube service that was pretty limited. The DLR was wonderful as ever, and at times like this the British actually speak to each other on their journey in. A joy. I'm very grateful to my DLR driver this morning, who drove us to Canary Wharf, was forced to go to Westferry, came back, then took us back towards Bank on another tube (he at least realised that as he had made it in he might as well do a double shift to make up for his colleagues who hadn't made it).

Enjoy the pictures of the snow. I may be forced to go out and take more later as there's still a steady fall. I recalled being much younger earlier when I saw the kids sledging down the hills in Greenwich Park this morning. Even they had been defeated about an hour ago (or the visibility was so bad I couldn't see them).

More blog soon ...