Friday, February 6th, 2009
A colleague calls from his car saying he is on the M1 junction's exit slip road and it is an hour later before he makes it in to work, having travelled the one mile or so left of the journey. It seems that the horrendous traffic that I got ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
There was a fresh snowfall yesterday morning, but not so much as to stop me from jumping in the car and making the daily commute. Sadly, the weather north of the M25 had different ideas about my getting to work. The snowfall wasn't great, but combined with the ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
We have our biggest snow fall of the last six years! Everything is so pretty with a blanket of untouched snow covering it. Unfortunately, because we get snow so rarely, maybe a couple of times a year in any significant depth, we simply are not equipped to cope ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I really shouldn't have ridden my motorbike to work this morning. I saw a sprinkling of snow outside when I opened the curtains, unseasonably early, but the road and pavement looked clear. When I got outside the road seemed to be grippy, testing it with my boots, even ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
It snowed overnight, leaving a white world to wake up to. It's quite late for snow here, although it has snowed in May and maybe even June before, and the only other snow we've had this year was over the Easter weekend. The Easter snow wasn't much to ...
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