I've always been a fan of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I love Rime of the Ancient Mariner to pieces, it's one of the very best poems I've ever had the chance to study at university and I'm also a bit partial to Iron Maiden's rather epic metal interpretation of it. But it was a particular quote about the British weather that is attributed to Coleridge that forever holds him high in my esteem: "Summer has set in with its usual severity." Never ceases to raise a chuckle with me, even when its pelting it down and I'm walking home in a decidedly soggy pair of trousers.
This seems to have been very apt over the last couple of years. With the exception of a couple of months from May to June this year, where Mother Nature lulled us into a false sense of security, summers have been pretty wet and pretty awful. We've had epic snow, wind, rain, hail, sleet, and the rest. If I were an Eskimo I'd insert another 40 odd words for snow, its been that rubbish. Lloyds TSB are interested in our rubbish weather. Interested to the point where they are running a competition called British Weather Photographer of the Year. I'm not the sharpest tool in the box but even I could have a pretty accurate guess at the subject matter of this one.
So this is my entry:
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Cooking on gas in the snow |
Feel free to vote for it here its in the ice & snow category, as the first prize is £10,000. In fact you can enter yourself as the competition runs from April 13th – September 30th 2010 at the competition website. There are some fabulous entries, but I wouldn't vote for those, vote for me, this isn't a meritocracy after all!
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