On the Road Again!

For weeks one on the local online news agencies has been predicting snow on an almost daily basis.  It arrived.  We were told it could be 10 to 20 centimetres. Er... so.... There's still time... Reggie enjoying the snow!

Snow was forecast for our area last night with it causing disruption to traffic and transport in general. In the end it snowed briefly in Hythe for a few hours and by about 2am it was raining and continued right up to my leaving for work at 7.30am. Even heavy as I drove to the station. There was a little at the station but as Hythe is a few feet above sea level there is an altitude difference. Folkestone West Station parking Folkestone West Station On the way in on the higher ground on the downs there was more but not really enough for the train companies to plan and run reduced services to and from London. Of course everyone of a certain age harks back to the winters we used to have in the 1950's and 1960's.  (See pix below).  In UK winters have become milder and we do have snow, but not on the same scale. Those harking back (to the good old days?)  talk of walking waist deep to school and to work.  Here in the south of England things...

Although he's seen snow before he kept wanting to go out in it and mess about. Mostly running about with his bone in his mouth and growling. Other Pictures:

Living in the South-East of England we don't get snow very often and when we do it usually stays for a few hours and then melts away and that's it. A couple of years ago we had about six inches and the nation was paralysed!  " They run trains in Canada " was the cry from people, forgetting that Canada gets snow and loads of it every year and so they are expecting it and not like us, a freak occurrence. So today when I got up and saw that the car roofs and windscreens were covered in a few centimetres I was expecting the worst.  There wasn't even enough to stop the wipers from working. I did take a picture for posterity. Hardly worth the effort!! On my fifteen minute drive to the station I pulled over to take a picture of the sun peeping from under a cloud bank just after it broke over the horizon.  Before I could restart, the snow started. Not the fluffy flaky stuff of the movies but strangely coarse granular bits about 3mm diameter.  It c...

Don't bother gritting the pavement. Who the f*ck walks?