I knew it would. We'd had all those warnings and the app on my phone was telling me that the temperature was 0ºC and the humidity was 100% which did make me wonder whether that didn't mean that I would have to start growing gills. For a moment I thought there was just going to be a dusting and that would be it and I remember posting NN12 0/10 on the #uksnow website at one point. What always happens, though, is that as soon as you close the curtains it all comes down in a hurry which is what happened last night. I settled down to watch a film, went to sleep, went to bed and went back to sleep and woke up to this lovely looking white world outside.
When I was young and had a car that was so old that it didn't matter a great deal if you hit the occasional fence I enjoyed whizzing around Hertfordshire lanes or up and down the farm drive where I was brought up. In those days there were few other people on the roads anyway and many of them didn't mind that much if they got a few dents either. So you really could 'go for a spin' and it was useful practice to find out what happened when wheels didn't grip or one or other end of the car decided to go in a different direction to what you might have expected. I still get that urge to set off on a bit of an adventure on the crisp new snow before it gets messed up with tracks and footprints but have to restrain myself. There are just so many other people's cars around these days on the side of the road and, despite anti-lock brakes, traction control, tyres about three times the width of those on my old Ford Popular and a whole host of gadgetry in my current car, I am sure my £30 banger was more capable of getting from A to B in this weather.
So, apart from a trip to rescue my daughter from a party in Milton Keynes where I am sure they have made the roads out of a substance that gets especially slippery when covered with snow and stopping on even the most feint of inclines on one of the ubiquitous side roads results in being stuck for hours, I didn't do a great deal except take some pictures.
When I was young and had a car that was so old that it didn't matter a great deal if you hit the occasional fence I enjoyed whizzing around Hertfordshire lanes or up and down the farm drive where I was brought up. In those days there were few other people on the roads anyway and many of them didn't mind that much if they got a few dents either. So you really could 'go for a spin' and it was useful practice to find out what happened when wheels didn't grip or one or other end of the car decided to go in a different direction to what you might have expected. I still get that urge to set off on a bit of an adventure on the crisp new snow before it gets messed up with tracks and footprints but have to restrain myself. There are just so many other people's cars around these days on the side of the road and, despite anti-lock brakes, traction control, tyres about three times the width of those on my old Ford Popular and a whole host of gadgetry in my current car, I am sure my £30 banger was more capable of getting from A to B in this weather.
So, apart from a trip to rescue my daughter from a party in Milton Keynes where I am sure they have made the roads out of a substance that gets especially slippery when covered with snow and stopping on even the most feint of inclines on one of the ubiquitous side roads results in being stuck for hours, I didn't do a great deal except take some pictures.
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