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Cold snap

• Kate Feld
• 9 Feb 07, 12:23 PM

Brrr! The frigid temperatures have caused a few bitter complaints on the blogs. writes: 鈥淓n route to the data centre this morning, I overheard a cluster of crocuses shivering in the breeze.

鈥淚t鈥檚 bloody freezing. I thought you said it was safe to come up.鈥�
鈥淚 said no such thing. You鈥檙e the one who wanted to get a move on.鈥�
鈥淭hat鈥檚 a lie! You said, and I quote, 鈥業t鈥檚 been the mildest January since 1916...鈥欌€�
鈥溾€o this is my fault? Like everything else is my fault? Failing schools? Your father not loving you? Save it for the pansies.鈥�
The same bickering every year.鈥�

And it sounds as if enjoyed the weather a little too much:

鈥淚t was cold but beautiful as I hurtled across the Pennines. It was like one of those car adverts where there's nothing else but you and the open road, so I cranked the heater up, opened the sun roof and put the music on blare in the knowledge that no-one else was around.

I got so into it I kept this up right into the centre of Manchester and into the carpark. Trouble was, by that time, the Live Lounge CD had got around to James Blunt doing a Lemar tune. What the outraged locals parking their cars must have thought, as I circled looking for a space, I dread to think. I'm pretty sure that it was only the lack of a personalised number plate that prevented them hauling me out through the sun-roof and scrawling TW4T on my forehead.鈥�

Hmm. Maybe you鈥檇 be safer staying inside, like . He has been enjoying a bit of late-night shopping in 鈥渢he most awesomely huge Asda Walmart store in Mancunia:鈥�

鈥淚 love doing food shopping in the middle of the night. It all really comes down to the fact that I don't play well with others. People pushing tolleys around getting in my way pisses me off to the point that I get a serious case of supermarket rage... so I go down between the hours of say 1am and 4am, and have pretty much the whole place to myself. I'm like a kid in a candy store."

Seems like everyone鈥檚 buying music and offering up reviews of it, so before you head down the shop you might want to read these posts on , and That last blogger has some cautionary words, however:

鈥淟ike many other people every time I hear Grace Kelly by Mika I want to tear open my skull and rip out whatever part controls the short term memory.鈥�

Photoblogger Walter Menzies believes he has perfectly captured the Mancunian zeitgeist with . He writes:

鈥淭his pic sums up Manchester 2007...original modern maybe...glitz...Ian Simpson's Beetham Tower...and erm...basic...the chippie lives on...complexity and contradiction that's what makes Manchester such a joy.鈥�