Let it snow....again!

After a couple of weeks of blue skies and sunshine I was hoping for more as I headed 250 miles north to Leeds for work. Sadly it was drizzling as I left home but worse was to come. As I joined the M1 at Donnington it turned to snow that began to settle. The traffic got heavier and I decided to pull off to grab some supplies and a prepare myself should I get stuck in it for a while. This is the scene that greeted me as I pulled in to the services. Luckily it didn't get any worse and by the time I was heading home to Reading it was back to sunshine again.

The white stuff

A week after the last load and its back again. Late last night it started snowing again. I was due to head round the M25 first thing in the morning and the last engineer from work to do that had a seven hour round trip for something that should have taken two hours! I packed extra food, hats and gloves and set off early. Scrapping the inch or two of snow off the van at 6:30am it didn't seem as bad as expected. As I rolled out onto the main road it had all melted away off the tarmac but nobody knew this and so pretty much the whole of the working world had given up meaning a faster than planned trip and an early finish.

Let it snow....

Following this weeks dip in temperatures, Saturday saw a rise of a few degrees which can only mean one thing. Yep, bang on time according to the weatherman the white stuff started falling last night and this morning Lily got her first taste of snow, she was only a few months old when we had snow last year. With several layers and some wellies on she stomped around in the garden, falling over and generally having a laugh. We didn't stay out long and she slept through the whole sledging session later in the day.