Well the week of icy weather has abated for a while at last, and the hill on which I live is now passable again. Not that during the snowy weather people didn’t try to drive along it including me. I found a week ago I couldn’t reverse into my parking bay so I parked outside a neighbour’s house.The delivery man who brought my dog’s food found himself slipping right into the hedge and it took two of us to scrape off the ice to help his van out of the mess. That an ambulance got stuck was a little absurd but then apparently the NHS doesn’t give their staff four wheel drives for emergencies in bad weather. It is good to know you have to be ill in dry, sunny or rainy weather of you need to go to hospital.
It has been quite interesting to see the hardier folk walking their dogs in this, though I had to stay out of the fields with Queenie-Colleen as the snow collects on her fur and forms balls until she cannot walk – a common problem with long haired dogs. She however absolutely loved the snow, she was like a puppy dashing all over the place and eating all the snowballs I could make before my fingers froze.
The children also had a lot of fun tobogganing down the hill though I see modern toboggans are made of plastic. I suppose one day so will the snow.