It’s funny, being British. The one thing you can guarantee is that everyone’s always happy to talk about: the weather. However, the hilarity only really sets in when I get an invite to a Facebook snowball fight event in London (there’s even a twitter account for it) before I even notice it’s snowing up here.

As well as quite literally every Facebook status entry today commenting on the weather, Twitterers have been having fun as well, inventing the #uksnow tag and generally posting pictures, videos and commentary. It’s funny, though; there’s only so much of this you can take before it becomes tiresome, especially when it’s already snowed up here a few times recently. Yet it’s not irritating — yet — because the childlike delight in this magic white stuff is coming through loud and clear, and we’re all united by it.

This isn’t a new thing, of course. Back in the day (here goes) I remember commentary flying back and forth on IRC about snow whenever it would visit Cambridge for a nanosecond. But this is the first time it’s really hit me with the full force of every social network I’m tapped into. Let’s just hope it doesn’t snow again for a while.

[Image is a mosaic from flickr photos tagged with uksnow]