Northern Europe swept by storms

Apparently this included me. Let's just say it was really windy yesterday. And sideways raining. As I was walking to class along a certain building where it is always unnaturally windy (I feel like there was some sort of tunnel effect created there, because it's is seriously always unnaturally windy in this particular area), but yesterday it was so windy that I started to feel like I wasn't moving forward when I put one foot in front of the other. Like, there was a considerable amount of effort required to walk without falling over. The wind was howling all day long, causing minor disruptions during lectures. Does this warrant top headline on BBC news? No. It's more of a 'say a couple words about the weather while you're waiting for the elevator' situation. But then again, I wasn't on one of the 5 flights cancelled going out of the local airport. Or one of the 100,000 people in Godalming without power. After what has been going on in Seattle this winter, I'm sure this all seems laughable. And I'm just saying that indeed it is.

We've still been doing the quiz every week. There was a 4 week gap over Christmas, but other than that it is still a weekly event. What has changed however, is that we aren't any good. For some reason the pub is making the quiz progressively more difficult (they manage to come up with utterly ridiculous questions). Last night it reached a new level of impossibility when not a single group got the final killer round question right. The question was 'how many jumps are there in the grand national?'. This is apparently a horse race with 16 jumps, 14 of which are jumped twice, meaning the correct answer is 30. There were also questions about snooker, association croquet, and some kind of league rugby. It was not American oriented, to say the least.