We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman"
saying something like:

Watching the London news tonight made me laugh. Reports from journo's all
over the UK all basically saying "its snowing". A few claimed "the area is
cut off" which makes one wonder how they got there.

What made me laugh this morning was a journalist townie walking over the
snowy road to a bridge and pointing at a heron, saying "And there's a
heron desperately seeking shelter". Riiiight... the heron was simply
standing in the middle of the river looking for
fish/frogs/condoms/whatever they eat.