Guide to surviving a Snowy London Birthday

October is quite a hard styling month for me: Halloween is on its way, just following my birthday. And this year, to top it all off, it snowed.

What to wear on a snowy London birthday day

Birthday are always hard to style, because unfortunately life doesn't stop to make the day special for you. And unfortunately Weekend birthdays only happen once every 6 years or so.

This means you still have to drag yourself out of bed, on a cold morning, and deal with the 9am rush-hour. You might think it's OK to be late for work on that special day, but your employer probably won't.

Consequently, the painful (but gorgeous) stiletto shoes you bought as a pre-birthday present to yourself, are not the best option.

Especially when fate decides that London will have its first October snow since 1934.

Birthdays make you the centre of attention no matter what

It's a little bit like bumping into the most gorgeous human being the only day that you are wearing the tramp-like, I-can't-be-bothered-today, outfit.

People spend the day asking you what presents you got and usually, the answer is "none yet". Which can make you even more frustrated.

You can't look like you have thought this through too much

It's Halloween in a couple of days and you don't want people to think you're a little early with the fancy dress.

But you still want to look good when everyone starts singing the dreadful, embarrassing, "Happy birthday" song in front of the whole class or office, therefore directing all usually-non-caring eyes on you.

Survival tips

Consequently, the best way out of birthdays and to take the day off sick, receive all the lovely phone calls and messages from unknown friends who had disappeared from the surface of the earth, and have some evening drinks (expecting presents as well as wine) with your funniest friends.

And the next day, when you have finally received that amazing birthday dress from a distant aunt with excellent taste, you can boast. Finally.