You may have noticed that it's gone a little white outside...
Kids' school is closed; I've taken the day off work, as there are no buses to get me there. Can't get the car up the requisite hill to get to the main road, so housebound or limited to where you can get to on foot.
Kids were out in the garden @ 7:30 am and the snowman was in place shortly thereafter. Hubby went out with camera to Horniman Gardens - only to find them closed for health & safety reasons. However, there are about 50 people on tea trays going down Horniman Drive.....
Is anything running out there? What's everyone else up to?
Brian, this is England. It never snows so we were not prepared for it
Heck, I am from Johannesburg where it snows every hundred years or so. 1st snow I saw there and they had snow plows out!! I havnt seen a snow plow here. Sad is'nt it.
I haven't managed to get out as I have been 'working from home'. However, a friend on facebook posted some excellent pictures of the snow in Forest Hill.
Has anybody else got some good photos to share of Forest Hill under snow?
How ridiculous that Horniman is closed for 'Health and Safety' reasons! Clearly it is a lot safer for children to sledge down roads.
I know the reason is probably to do with the risk of someone slipping on an unbrushed path, or having an accident with a sledge, and suing the %^& off them, but it really is daft. The law should make allowance for conditions and expect folks to look after their own interests within reason.
A few weeks ago I was in a supermarket in Glasgow and my elderly mother nearly tripped over a loop of all but invisible plastic cable. We took it to the checkout so no-one else did trip over it and the girl there pretty much suggested she call management so we could claim something! These law firms advertising on tv have a lot to answer for!!
judging by the photo I put up, Horniman was open. Perhaps it took them a little longer to open, or maybe they only opened the top gate. But it does appear it was open.
Great pictures! We were visited by a robin this morning. It sat on a snowy branch and looked at us through the kitchen window. I wished I'd taken a photo, it was so picturesque with his red breast standing out from the snow. And yes we did drop him a crumb or two....
Yesterday I had no chance of moving the car, no chance of catching a bus and no chance of a childcare facility.
Today, I managed to get down Taymount Rise without falling over and squashing my children (one in sling, one running amok).
I managed to laugh at my husband's car, which he pranged last night gently sliding down out of the drive Forest Croft (so he could park it at the bottom of the hill), without being beaten up by said husband (who is a bit embarrassed but pleased he can get to work this morning).
I managed to get on a bus.
I managed to get a seat on said bus.
I managed to get off bus, deposit un-squashed children in nursery (which is in another place due to "emergency conditions") and get to work without falling over.
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