Reading Roars!

I’m told that some snow (of the precipitation kind) is expected to arrive tomorrow in the UK. 

I like snow.  Most of us do, I suspect.  I no longer build snowmen (snowpeople?) or chuck snowballs, but I do like swirling snow showers, wintry landscapes and the scrunchy sound that is made when you walk on fresh snow.

I am a little bit nervous, however, about the impact the snow will have on our fragile transport system.  President Obama last week had a dig at Washington for closing schools because of “some ice”.  We, too, have an inability to cope with more extreme winter conditions, it seems, and that’s snow joke.  

If you are as interested as I am in, er, snow, and where it might be striking next, you can follow a snow trend that has emerged on Twitter.  The trending tag to use is #uksnow (check this page).  The last I checked, Karen Blakeman of Caversham tweeted “nothing happening in Caversham. Very cold but still lots of clear sky. “.  Isn’t Twitter wonderful?

Tickets for the Reading Twestival (not to be confused with the August Bank Holiday weekend
event) are now available.

The venue has also been announced: La Tasca. If you fancy meeting local Tweeple over a plate of bravas, visit the Reading Twestival website for full details.

Since my last post on local political bloggers, published a number of days ago (I have been kept busy in the real world), several developments have occurred.

Martin Salter MP has relaunched his site at http://www.martinsalter.com.  The site offers current campaign information, news releases, downloadable Parliamentary News reports in PDF, angling pics and more.  The Evening Post reports that he has no plans to spend time on Twitter.  On an unrelated note, it is very pleasing to see Martin oppose the Heathrow third runway decision.

Oranjepan of Reading List has published a Reading List Blog Survey. To date, answers have been submitted by:

former MP Jane Griffiths

Wendy House’s Wendy

Glenn Goodall (Lib Dem Councillor for Redlands) - see below

Matt Brady of the curiously-named Reading Roars!

Katherine “The Sourceress” Robinson

Zoman, who answers on his blog z0man’s Personal Corner

Please do submit your Reading blog, if you have one.  This looks an interesting intiative that can help bring like-minded individuals together (I’m pleased to see there is one other blogger who shares my view that we have too many bars in the town centre).  To keep up to date with Oranjepan’s articles on the Reading blogosphere, bookmark his blogging page. 

A public spat meanwhile continues in response to Bloggers and Luddites in Reading, published on Adrian Windich’s Green Reading blog.

Glenn Goodall, Lib Dem Councillor for Redlands ward, launched a blog at http://glenngoodall.mycouncillor.org.uk/.  Oranjepan was first to spot it, to which Glen’s response was Bugger!  I’ve been spotted!