October 29, 2008

We interrupt the nationwide fury over absolutely nothing (see post below this one) to bring you the news that it is slightly colder outside than it was yesterday (copyright: all UK broadcasters).

This has meant that rain has turned into sleet in some places, and even snow in yet a few more, although not at all in most parts of the country, where it remains just an unfashionably plain "chilly", although they don't matter, as they're not in London.

This new Ice Age, already being dubbed "wintry weather" by (always) pink-nosed Scottish weather presenters across the length and breadth of the BBC's weather "centre", is likely to last until around March, when the days will get a bit brighter again and we can once more look forward to a shite summer, preceded by two weeks of glorious late-April/early May sunshine that will be dubbed by newspaper editors everywhere as "a scorcher" and lead to an inexplicable number of bikini-clad girls flocking to Brighton for the afternoon (while the photographers are there).

And now back to Dermot, reporting live from the Gates of Hell where Russell Brand and Jonathon Ross are said to be lying prostrate before The Devil himself. Dermot?