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Date: 06/01/10
Snowed In
It started seriously snowing at about 2.30 on Tuesday afternoon. It was quite fine stuff, but there was a lot of it. It continued until about 9.00pm.
Did I find this depressing? Not a bit of it. You see, I was due back in work after my New Year break this morning, and given that I live about 800 feet up, there was a fair chance that I wouldn't be able to get to the office, especially given that I didn't see a single bus go by after about 4pm.
We also didn't get any snowplough action here last night at all. This is probably due to the Council 'prioritising' the main roads, meaning that a village with a population of about three thousand can just go swivel on it. One of the local farmers came along with his tractor late last night and shoved a bit of snow out of the way, but it didn't make much difference.
I nonetheless got up at my usual work time to find that the situation was no better, and that we had no chance of a bus service this side of lunchtime (as I type this, it's nearly 2pm, I still haven't seen a snowplough up here, let alone anything which could be categorised as 'public transport').
So having phoned in to the office with the bitterly disappointing news that I would not be able to take my place at the coalface today, and having thereby thumbed my nose at all those pompous pricks in lunatic fringe organisations such as the CBI and the Institute of Directors who are probably already moaning about the snow costing the economy £55squillion per minute (i.e., roughly equivalent to one bank executive's bonus), I decided to make the most of the opportunity to go out and take a few snaps (without snapping anything of my own, e.g., a leg, in the process).
The snow was deep on the sides of the roads, but if you kept to the tracks made by the tractor and the odd enterprising (i.e., 'show off') 4x4 driver it was OK.
So, some pics:
Pool Road:
Snow on the trees on Waterside Way:
The Pool, frozen over, with Minera Mountain in the background:
The Bottle Chimney:
