{"id":18878,"date":"2013-03-22T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2013-03-22T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:28:19","slug":"day-81-more-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/22\/day-81-more-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 81: More Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

March isn’t often the victim of a snow day. The last one was a whole 60 days ago<\/a> and, to be honest, that was the last I expected of poor weather. However, it has continued, and today saw a silly amount of snow drop from the sky.<\/p>\n

There was a brief halt to it around 1 o’clock, where a slight thaw began, but it continued later on and is still falling now.<\/p>\n

My school was closed but Mrs Pitts’ wasn’t, meaning I got a bonus day with Kit, who was a little scared of the snow – or at least appeared to be given the amount of meowing she was making first thing this morning.<\/p>\n

This also meant that Sky Sports F1<\/a> was on for most of the day as the practice sessions for the Malaysian Grand Prix had happened over night. The end of the second session was on just as I got the text about the closure, but I looked at the schedule and enjoyed the complete 1999 Malaysian Grand Prix<\/a> (this was the inaugural race at the Sepang circuit<\/a> and was won by Eddie Irvine<\/a> after Michael Schumacher<\/a>‘s return that season following a broken leg at Silverstone<\/a>). This was particularly enjoyable for me as Murray Walker<\/a> was commentating and I had remembered that it was a win for Schumacher… You can’t win them all.<\/p>\n

Following this there were replays of both practice session which were very interesting. David Croft and Johnny Herbert<\/a> were commentating and they tend to focus on the more technical aspects of the sport during this time. I suppose only hardcore fans would watch something that is fairly insignificant as far as the result is concerned anyway, so that approach makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Anyway, while all this was on the TV<\/a>, I was levelling writing – a thoroughly boring job but one that’s necessary for my job. This was a part of my weekend plan but it frees a fair bit of time up.<\/p>\n

Kit has also realised that we have fish over the past couple of days. Oh dear.<\/p>\n\n

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