The reports of snowfall remind me of living in North Wales....we had snow in abundance every year...so getting used to it we sledged, contemplated buying skis and really did enjoy it...until the year we moved.
David had a promotion to the city....we had to look for a house near to London.
We found one, did all the legal work and got ready for the move. It was February. A removal van was booked...we packed everything into tea chests...we were ready. The day of the move it had snowed during the night.
No van arrived. A call to the removal company revealed that it was stuck in a drift somewhere.
Our house was packed up, as were our clothes. We settled down to wait. There was just enough food for one night. Our beds were dismantled so we slept on mattresses all together on the floor of the only warm room.
It took two days to get us to Essex. We were booked into a hotel for the night waiting for our furniture to catch us up.
During that period we fried....all our clothes were heavy to keep us warm in an ice age.
Essex was subtropical by comparison.
We finally were reunited with our furniture a couple of days later. David went back to work whilst I got everything in place. I liked Essex but any snow there was tame by comparison.
We never used the sledges. I hope the new people enjoyed them...I knew I would never need them in Cornwall!
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We had a bit of snow on Sunday, which went on for a few hours, but caused unwanted disruption. The Council in it's wisdom, had ignored the forecast for snow, and had not bothered to grit the roads or pavements. It actually took them some 9 hours to respond and get the gritters out, which at least stopped the by now, slush from freezing. Today we have continuous rain which is washing the snow away, but the forecast is ominous for more sleety snow today, I hope that the council will be more prepared this time around.
I'm still housebound.... The main roads are supposed to be fine be we are stuck here the road is impassable. I hate snow. It makes life so hard.
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