We have friends in Scotland and the north of England and the borders of Wales. So I know that many people have had proper snow and are now wishing it would clear up and move on. Apologies for the excitement, but over tonight and early tomorrow we have snow forecast for our area.
I had enough of driving to work in snow over forty years; the first twenty years of it on various motorcycles as our sole transport. My husband rode a motorcycle to work every day for his entire career while I switched reluctantly to cars on the last few years. It teaches you to watch the road surface and other drivers, to take nothing on trust. Splats of diesel and patches of black ice and packed snow mean a wild skid if you aren’t riding to suit the road.
But now we’re retired… we’re peering out of the window every few minutes, long after midnight, waiting for it to snow. We’ve never grown out of it. Wishing everyone a safe drive tomorrow.
Julia Chalkley 