Snow

Looks nice. As usual, I'm horrified with the ease that British drivers become utterly useless faced with a fairly trivial amount of snow. It was obvious the magical effect this substance has when coming down the M6 yesterday (a motorway I have driven on in a proper blizzard FWIW, crossing Shap as the only person with the nearest I could get to the right tyres in a VW Jetta syncro allowing me to have the outside lane entirely clear) - around Stafford a few flakes fell out of the sky, and there's a cascade of braking, confusion of fog/side lights as people failed to select the right lighting, tailgating AND determined middle-lane sitting but also dropping to 50ish mph (and then being overtaken by HGVs)...

...and that was just my driving. No, seriously, it was amazing. The conditions didn't require any change in driving, yet it was notably slower, less organised and definitely less "focused" for that stretch.

Is there some health-and-safety reason why London's buses aren't working? Most of 'em are rear engined so would have good traction, and at least in the middle they rarely break a decent jog for speed...

Aha!

My lavalamp is a proper Mathmos one. I never buy the right things, so I'm assuming this one was given to me; either way, it's a little scorched inside (I swear the bulb is the right one, but I think it's burned the wax - does that happen with them eventually?).

Because it's a proper one, I can buy a new glass bit with new insides.

However, this hippie-friendly product does not appear to offer a recycling service whereby they take your old class and refill it!