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Kestral

I do love my neighbourhood when it snows. It's like I'm in a Dickens novel.

A photo of a snowy scene in London, taken from the steps of St Mary Le Strand by Kestral Gaian on 11th December 2022.
68 comments
Bill Bittner (He/Him)

@LaCrecerelle For a moment I thought that was a painting. Beautiful.

Leslie

@LaCrecerelle Such an inviting image! I absolutely love London. I can only imagine how much more beautiful it is when it snows! ๐Ÿ˜

InayaShujaat

@pnwres @LaCrecerelle snow has that magic ability to make even the drabbest places beautiful. ๐Ÿ˜Š

DrLeonJ

@timrichards @LaCrecerelle St Mary Le Strand Church on the Strand in central London.

Kim Scheinberg

@LaCrecerelle
That's a gorgeous view and a spectacular photo.

But, like, which Dickens novel is the aspirational one? Admittedly I've only read four of them (and it was a long time ago) but I don't remember a desire to live in any of them.

Nina Bernstein

@LaCrecerelle @kims A Christmas Carol perhaps. This BBC story provides an intersecting perspective on how & why Dickens created the myth of a white Christmas in Britain.
bbc.com/future/article/2018121

InayaShujaat

@kims @LaCrecerelle Iโ€™ve always thought Great Expectations would be fun to live in, as an unnamed, background character. So many interesting (and bizarre!) people in that one!

Kim Scheinberg

@InayaShujaat @LaCrecerelle
I loved Bleak House, but I hated GE so much, I could barely make it through the Cliff Notes. Just the words Pip and Miss Havisham give me a shudder, but maybe I should give it another try.

Tofu Golem

@LaCrecerelle
If it weren't for cars, I would *love* winter.

Mad Hildebrandt

@LaCrecerelle Lovely! I wonโ€™t get snow until I head East later this week!

aunfire

@LaCrecerelle georgeous! Im absolutely jealous. I mean, if I have to endure snow, itโ€™d be nice to have an image like this to look at.

Colleen

@LaCrecerelle
Beautiful โ„โ„โ„โ„โ„

Jen

@LaCrecerelle WHERE IS THIS??? I wanna be there!!!

CharliDuffy6

@LaCrecerelle just shoveled my walk n drive for the first time this season. โค๏ธ Yours is a much nicer walk though, a beauty.

Bargdaffy

@LaCrecerelle That's funny because you are in a Dicken's Novel.

fmc01

@Bargdaffy @LaCrecerelle Nothing liberal about this pair - they are just cold-hearted callous neoconservatives.

8-Bit Boyz

@LaCrecerelle This really does look like a Dickens novel. Very awesome!!

CP93

@LaCrecerelle
So there are poor people starving to death around the corner, covered in snow blackened by coal soot?

Kestral

@CP93 I mean yes - there are people freezing and starving to death in london this very second.

Caroline Winfield

@LaCrecerelle I loathe snow with a deep and burning passion, but that IS very pretty!

Terrify

@LaCrecerelle Looks like a beautiful, winter postcard!

gdtrfb

@LaCrecerelle let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..

Alison BOOK

@LaCrecerelle Looks like a painting! So beautiful ๐Ÿ˜

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