{"id":675,"date":"2010-01-25T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=675"},"modified":"2010-01-25T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:58:27","slug":"guest-post-evil-winter-zima-zla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/guest-post-evil-winter-zima-zla\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post – Evil Winter! (“Zima Z\u0142a”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we have a new guest post by a new guest blogger – Ms. Anglopole.
\nMs. Anglopole is Polish but lives with her husband and kids in the UK. She blogs about her Anglopolish life at Anglopole’s Ponglish World<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, Ms. Anglopole, the floor (or rather – the blog) is yours today! Take it away.
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A few weeks before Christmas the British media treated us with scary news: there would be heavy snowfalls (opady \u015bniegu<\/strong>) practically everywhere in the British Isles! Yeah, yeah, you\u2019ve guessed right \u2013 for most immigrants (emigranci<\/strong>) from the Central and Eastern Europe this news was far from frightening, and actually, the omnipresent British \u2018snow panic\u2019 was getting to be really annoying.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly the weather forecast (prognoza pogody<\/strong>) was correct on that occasion and we actually had a month of real winter, which reminded me of Polish winters (polskie zimy<\/strong>) and how harsh they can be. I am sure many of my countrymen living in the UK welcomed the freezing temperatures (mrozy<\/strong>), blizzards (zamiecie<\/strong>), snowdrifts (zaspy \u015bnie\u017cne<\/strong>) and picture postcard landscapes (krajobrazy jak z obrazka<\/strong>) as a reminder of Poland in winter. Those homesick for our homeland have felt more at home in the UK this winter, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

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\nI am not a great fan of cold winters and so the \u2018big freeze\u2019 we experienced last year and at the beginning of 2010, for me personally, was more of a survival camp (ob\u00f3z przetrwania<\/strong>) than anything else.<\/p>\n

First of all, the fact that nothing whatsoever was done to clear the local roads and pavements (sidewalks) from snow was a major hazard (zagro\u017cenie<\/strong>) for anyone venturing out of their house. On those snowy days I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about winter tyres (opony zimowe<\/strong>) which are a necessity (konieczno\u015b\u0107<\/strong>) in Poland and here are rather uncommon.<\/p>\n

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Also I so wished I had a shovel (szufla<\/strong>) to clear the snow at least around our house. To transport the kids around people needed sleds (sanie<\/strong>) and we got one as well. Ironically, on the day a friend of ours gave us a sled for our children, the snow began to thaw (topnie\u0107<\/strong>) and it hasn\u2019t snowed again since. The white blankets covering the fields have disappeared and all the snowmen (ba\u0142wany<\/strong>) built by excited kids have melted away (roztopi\u0142y si\u0119<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

At the moment, the winter here is more or less as it usually is in the UK \u2013 rainy (deszczowa<\/strong>, yes, \u201cdeszczowa<\/strong>\u201d, because in Polish \u201cwinter\u201d \u2013 \u201czima<\/strong>\u201d is a feminine noun), windy (wietrzna<\/strong>) and chilly (ch\u0142odna<\/strong>). I am relieved, frankly speaking. I also feel for all my friends back in Poland as winter there seems to be truly Siberian and can be described nicely by this paragraph from Maria Konopnicka<\/strong>\u2019s poem \u2018Z\u0142a Zima<\/strong>\u2019 (Evil Winter):<\/p>\n

\u201cHu! Hu! Ha! Nasza zima z\u0142a!
\nSzczypie w nosy, szczypie w uszy
\nMro\u017anym \u015bniegiem w oczy pr\u00f3szy,
\nWichrem w polu gna!
\nNasza zima z\u0142a!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks like the global warming (globalne ocieplenie<\/strong>) in Europe has been more like a global freezing! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Oh, spring, where art thou?! Wiosno, gdzie jeste\u015b?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you so much Ms. Anglopole! You have no idea how happy I am that you decided to write about winter. Personally, I hate winters. I’d rather pretend they didn’t exist at all. So, needless to say, I am very glad you picked this “frosty” topic for your guest post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Today we have a new guest post by a new guest blogger – Ms. Anglopole. Ms. Anglopole is Polish but lives with her husband and kids in the UK. She blogs about her Anglopolish life at Anglopole’s Ponglish World. OK, Ms. Anglopole, the floor (or rather – the blog) is yours today! Take it away…<\/p>\n

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