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Damn snow

// February 27th, 2004 // Personal

Well the snow from the night before last was obviously only the precursor to big daddy snow. We got about 6 inches on the ground this morning (yeah, I know it’s not a lot, but this is the first time we’ve had snow anywhere near that deep on the ground since 1997) which in turn meant that the motor bike stayed home and I had to get the bus in. I dislike bussing to work. Not out of any hatred for public transport – I’d quite happily bus it every day if it were feasible. No the problem is that on the bike it takes 20 minutes (max) and on the bus it takes an hour and 10 minutes with a change of buses in between.

Last night was interesting (the quiz went great by the way – a whole 3 teams braved the snow to play). After the quiz had finished we were invited back to a friend’s place to build a snowman in the front garden of their work. Snow is heavy. and wet. and cold but fortunately we were able to make two massive snow people. One was obviously female by dint of her rather large frontage and we left them, smiling at the world through coal eyes, holding hands and enjoying the fall of fresh snow…

Many of the children currently enjoying half term would not have seen snow before (or not in this kind of quantity anyway) .

So I can’t feel too bad about having to bus everywhere today because, whilst snow is a nightmare for adults, it still fills kids with wonder and excitement and they deserve a bit of fun.