The snow has arrived

Well the promised snow has finally arrived in our little corner of the world. It was rather strange really, we live in the Chiltern Hills and so appear to have our own little micro climate......often a few degrees colder, rain when Marlow is dry, dry when Marlow is wet, but what usually happens is that we get a little bit of snow before anyone else in the south. So for the last few days we have been watching the news with amusement as not only has 'the north' and Scotland turned white, but so have places like the south coast and even the Isle of White. Anyway, as promised, we woke up this morning to find the world had gone white. We had a light flurry late morning just as hubby was going to work, but as of yet, we have not had any more, but how knows what tonight will bring.


Yesterday I took the bus (gotta get my moneys worth) to Wycombe to meet a friend for lunch. We ended up in Zizzi's (Italian) coz at Christmas time they do a bottle of Prosecco for £15.95, so we decided we fancied that. We ended up doing the whole hog, finishing with liqueur coffees........luckily all she had to do was walk home and all I had to do was stagger to the bus station, and get the bus home. Temperature was absolutely freezing, I don't think that the frost melted all day, and I have to say I don't think I can ever remember it being this cold. Now I constantly say I was born in the wrong country, that I should have been born in a hot country as I do love the heat, but I used to really enjoy ski-ing, and I don't remember being freezing cold all the time!!!


I have to say I am glad that I am on a rest day today and I am also pleased that for some reason hubby is doing later shifts today and tomorrow. So far his shifts have mainly been early starts, 03.58 being the earliest so far, though they are usually between 5am and 6am, however today and tomorrow he does not starting until about 12.30pm, which means at least the roads have had time to sort themselves out. I am back to work tomorrow, but luckily am on a middle, so don't start until 10am. Ok, now to get a parking place in the park and ride, I need to be there before 9am, but at least I won't be the first car on the road, which is a danger for Thursday an Friday when I am on earlies!!!


Have to say that another thing that has amazed me is the number of schools that have been closed because of snow. Now when I was growing up, we had snow in the winter and I only remember our school being closed once - the boiler broke. And even then, for the children who could not go home...both parents worked say, they could stay at school. But then, I don't remember the country grinding to a halt as it does now.............though at least we do not appear to have run out gritting salt yet!!!


I blogged the other day that it took me nearly 4 hours to get home, a journey of about 22 miles, due to an accident on the M40. Imagine my surprise on Saturday morning when I was sat work and two traffic officers asked if they could leave a guy in the SDO for half an hour or so before they interviewed him. Turns out he was the driver of the lorry that caused the problems. Well, he was quite a nice guy actually, which was not my feelings on Friday when I was sat going nowhere!!


I also have to comment that my boss phoned me on Monday just to check I was ok after the incident on Friday and my lung full of captor spray. I was quite touched really. On Friday, the shift sergeant came to see me just to check I was ok, not just the lung full of captor, but he also said it could be quite shocking seeing something like that for the first time, and then to have another follow up call just to see if you are ok. Hospitality was never like this!