 Poster: A snowHead
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Snowing like the clappers when we woke, a good inch fallen I think. Sticky snow, pretty trees!!
Pretty fed up with the secondary school - they cancelled the school bus, then I drive 4 miles through pretty grim conditions (Winter tyres Rock! BTW) and get my daughter there only to have the phone peep at 0830 with a text message to say that school won't open until 11am!! Grrrr So had to drive her home again and now have the prospect of a return trip at 11am!! Primary school got on the text message system earlier - they are opening at 10am!! Any guesses as to what I shall spend the morning doing? Yup, ferrying kids to school!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snow in kent since 8 am and still falling. Megamum, let them stay at home and build snowmen.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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its amazing how much chaos 1inch of snow can cause.....
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yes but I did get a chance to get my show chains out and whiz round the essex country lanes where others feared to tread  (or couldn't get to 'cos the M11 was stuffed!)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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sherlockis, wow, how deep was the snow?
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ricklovesthepowder:
about 2 inches - in our bit of Essex, but on top of rain that had washed away the grit then frozen! on the main roads the light traffic just squashed the snow cover down to a shiny inch of solid ice, to be polished to tee by every rear-wheel drive auto german saloon that happened to try and get up that slight incline 
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SnowChains in Essex 5.12.12
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| sherlockis wrote: |
| solid ice, to be polished to tee by every rear-wheel drive auto german saloon that happened to try and get up that slight incline |
Hee hee. I live in the Alps and in six years have never used my chains although obviously I have snow tyres. This reminds me of last year's (or was it the one before..) visit to aged parent in Berkshire where I walked into town, had a few holiday afternoon pints and then walked home more quickly than the local BMWs. Not so fun if you are caught up in the attendant traffic jam like one of my parent's friends who had to abandon the car and walk miles. But if you can afford a posh german (or other) saloon, you should be able to afford snow tyres to go with it..
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what is it with BMWs? My son lives in the Chew Valley which was quite badly flooded recently and when he finally judged the water had receded enough to get into work in Bristol (in his ancient Ford Fiesta) he said the route was littered with BMWs which had been abandoned, presumably because their drivers thought they could drive on water.
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Pam, it's like power boats at Chichester Bar....
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