Snow business.
Dec. 4th, 2010 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaI overslept yesterday morning. This has a positive side to it. It's the first time I've slept properly on a Thursday night for weeks. But it did mean I got into work half an hour late which meant getting out half an hour late. I was a little worried about the traffic.
It wasn't bad at all. A little slow in places but with freezing roads I'll accept that people are keeping down to 50 or so on the motorway. Didn't even get stuck on the M25. Traffic announcement said there was an accident on the M23 and queues were forming but by the time I got there the queue had gone.
Getting back to Brighton was a surprise. Cheltenham had a light dusting of snow. It was cold and there was ice on the back roads, but that was about it. Brighton's roads were ice. Even along the motorway the right hand lane was still covered in snow. Taking a warning from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
penguin_worship , I was driving extremely carefully, especially down the ice slide that is Miller's Road. Pulled into my parking space. Car stopped. Tried reversing back up and into a better parking place. Car moved sideways down the camber. Decided that since I was now about an inch away from the kerb that would do.
Went inside. Fell on my arse. Turned water back on, water didn't flow. Put space heater in bathroom to defrsot the pipes and went to the Tesco express at the top of the road. The shelves were bare. Welcome to Soviet Russia, Comrade. Returned home and I had running water! Yay! Also the hot water tap that hasn't been working for over a year suddenly works again.
Went out for drinks with an old friend. This time I was mostly on mulled wine and mulled cider. Someone was talking about trapeze to her boyfriend. The snow had already started to melt by the time I got back.
So that's the snow. It has now gone. I'm not sure if I'm happy about this or not.
It wasn't bad at all. A little slow in places but with freezing roads I'll accept that people are keeping down to 50 or so on the motorway. Didn't even get stuck on the M25. Traffic announcement said there was an accident on the M23 and queues were forming but by the time I got there the queue had gone.
Getting back to Brighton was a surprise. Cheltenham had a light dusting of snow. It was cold and there was ice on the back roads, but that was about it. Brighton's roads were ice. Even along the motorway the right hand lane was still covered in snow. Taking a warning from
penguin_worship , I was driving extremely carefully, especially down the ice slide that is Miller's Road. Pulled into my parking space. Car stopped. Tried reversing back up and into a better parking place. Car moved sideways down the camber. Decided that since I was now about an inch away from the kerb that would do. Went inside. Fell on my arse. Turned water back on, water didn't flow. Put space heater in bathroom to defrsot the pipes and went to the Tesco express at the top of the road. The shelves were bare. Welcome to Soviet Russia, Comrade. Returned home and I had running water! Yay! Also the hot water tap that hasn't been working for over a year suddenly works again.
Went out for drinks with an old friend. This time I was mostly on mulled wine and mulled cider. Someone was talking about trapeze to her boyfriend. The snow had already started to melt by the time I got back.
So that's the snow. It has now gone. I'm not sure if I'm happy about this or not.
