Snow watch

[lissie]

Still no snow here in Kent---went shopping locally incase i got caught
but i could have gone to Canterbury and back.
So much for the forecast.

lissie

[JoM]

Our old Alsatian, Max, used to love the stuff, especially when it was deep enough for him to do his snowplough impression.

Did that involve sticking his nose in it and running?

[TheOstrich]

LOL @ debih re panic at the Co-op - I wandered in there this morning and bought their very last bag of self-raising flour so we can make rock cakes if we get totally snowed in.

Walked into the office this a.m., it wasn't too bad, but it hasn't stopped snowing since and they closed the office at 1:00 - so walked back in around 3 inches of the stuff, hard going. Overtook more than a few cars on the main road, though ...

I think the schools must have closed early too, lots of kids milling about and littlies being towed around on toboggans.

One unfortunate thing is that I've seen at least two fairly major water leaks in the locality.

[Workingman]

Our old Alsatian, Max, used to love the stuff, especially when it was deep enough for him to do his snowplough impression.

Did that involve sticking his nose in it and running?

Oh yes, and the whole of his head if the snow was deep enough... I am thinking that you have a similar tale to tell with Billy, or is it you wot does it?

[JoM]

I don't get that close to snow but yes, that's what Billy's been doing and his head has been covered in snow. It's been fun to watch him as this is his first experience of 'proper' snow

[Aggers]

Our four-legged friend, Prince, loves the snow and is so happy charging about in it.
He looks at me to throw snowballs for him to chase. The problem is that the snow now
falling is too powdery to compress into a snowball, and when I throw it, it disintegrates
and comes back in my face.

If it keeps on like this all night dog walking will be difficult, to say the least.

[meriad]

it started here about 9am this morning and we now have about 2 inches of snow.... but it seems to be easing off. They are apparently expecting it to go on all through the night and tomorrow morning; then sunny afternoon and a sunny Sunday which will be fab to go walking in

I got to the rail station this morning only to find out that the revised timetable South West Trains already announced last night meant no more than 3 trains an hour running into London; and that was before it even started snowing. So I made an executive decision and turned around and drove home. There is no way I wanted to have to either battle for about 2 or 3 hours to get home again or even worse get stuck in London for the weekend with no-one around to feed the cats. Besides which I made sure yesterday that everything at work was up to date just in case... and I can monitor emails from here so all should be OK.

I walked to the corner shop a bit earlier on to get some milk as I suspect the milkman won't be able to get through tomorrow morning (besides which I had run out and really fancied a cuppa ) and they still had bits and pieces of everything.

Two of the cats are loving the snow and have had some mad moments chasing each other and some snow flakes - fun to watch them and put a smile on my face.

it does amaze me though how the country comes to a grinding halt because of 4 inches of snow? It's not as though this is the tropics and snow is unheard of; it's an annual occurrence! Sigh

[JoM]

Wise move Ria, John's just got home after driving for 2 hours and 10 minutes - he works just over 10 miles away.

[saundra]

melted a bit yesterday but more has arrived

[Kaz]

Brrr