The final snow?

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and talk at length about our recent snowfall here in the UK!

As I think most of the developed world knows, the UK isn't really set up to deal with any kind of 'extreme' weather.  UK weather is normally pretty average:  average rain, average sun, average temperatures.  We've just been hit by a serious cold front; temperatures have dropped to negative double figures and snow lies thickly upon the ground.  We live out in the sticks and need to negotiate an untreated steep hill to get on to the main roads so the last two days for me have been spent working from home - fortunately the broadband still works and I can connect to work OK.

-10 degrees c at 0645 this morning

It's nice to look at for a while and Finn was certainly keen to get out in it (for twenty minutes at least), but after a while of course cabin fever sets in and you yearn for freedom.  The bread and milk starts to run low and you wonder how long you can work from home before the higher-ups decide you're taking the michael.

More icy than it looks

Assuming nothing radical happens tonight, I'm going to get up and leave early tomorrow morning and at least try to get in to work.  I managed to get the car out onto the road this evening and went for a slow trip round the block to see how things were and here's the thing - everything is fine as long as you're going along gently and don't have to slow down, speed up or steer too much, but as soon as you try to do any of these things the ABS comes on, the wheels start to spin or you drift off at a strange angle for a fair distance.  Meeting someone else coming the other way could become problematic, to say the least - hence my plan to get out v. early.  If it all goes to rats at least I can slink back without having to phone my insurance company.

But, and to finally get to the title of this post, it's likely that this is going to be the last major-ish snow we come in to contact with for years to come.  As we're planning to move to Sydney there's not much chance that heavy snow will be making its presence felt.  We'll have to make our way to the Snowies (which will be about 7 hours away) to be fairly sure of snow in the winter.  I don't know if we're going to miss it at all, it might be the sort of thing you only miss when it's gone - like so many other things...

Andy