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dreema at 11:18pm on 03/02/2003
dreema at 11:18pm on 03/02/2003Today has been an odd day. I was greeted by a bright light in the bathroom, that being the light reflecting off the snow and in through the window. I wander through to the kitchen to find it had snowed. Oh great I thought. So I got dressed, realised that the ice scraper was in the Mazda, which was at the garage, so I had to improvise, and collected a jiffy bag from the kitchen 'table'. I walk round the side of the house to find that the car was under a mound of snow (well, the side you can see was sheltered, it was hiding the other side).
Took me 20 mins to get the car clear enough to be safe to drive, so off I tootled down the road. I hasten to point out that the first mile was on undisturbed snow, which was a little hairy, but not too bad. Travelling home tonight on the same road was worse, cos all the cars had compacted the snow, and turned it into ice. Very slippy and easy to lose traction on.
So I drive into work, the main road into town wasn't too bad, although once in town itself, conditions worsened cos they hadn't done anything to the road. The Wallace Monument did look rather pretty on the way in.
I got to work with no trouble, and did the usual childish thing of parking the car using the handbrake to guide it into the space, leaving huge great skid tracks in the snow. This of course made me smile lots, so the boss asked what I'd been up to, so I opened the blinds. He saw the skid marks and called me a big kid. Hee hee :)
I helped to push two cars up the hill by the office too, cos they couldn't get enough traction to move. It was rather funny watching one car wanting to drive forward, but slide backwards.
Work at the school was pretty normal, got a load of boring stuff done. Managed to stay out of the way of the kids too, so I never got pelted. By the time I left, it was cold and dark again, so they'd all vanished. The trip home was fine, although as mentioned, a little hairy on the last mile and a half.
Tea tonight was the remains of the rogan josh I made last night, and I've done not much else, apart from pay the rent and watch Shanghai Noon.
One the plus side, my tooth has hardly hurt today, which is typical.
Took me 20 mins to get the car clear enough to be safe to drive, so off I tootled down the road. I hasten to point out that the first mile was on undisturbed snow, which was a little hairy, but not too bad. Travelling home tonight on the same road was worse, cos all the cars had compacted the snow, and turned it into ice. Very slippy and easy to lose traction on.
So I drive into work, the main road into town wasn't too bad, although once in town itself, conditions worsened cos they hadn't done anything to the road. The Wallace Monument did look rather pretty on the way in.
I got to work with no trouble, and did the usual childish thing of parking the car using the handbrake to guide it into the space, leaving huge great skid tracks in the snow. This of course made me smile lots, so the boss asked what I'd been up to, so I opened the blinds. He saw the skid marks and called me a big kid. Hee hee :)
I helped to push two cars up the hill by the office too, cos they couldn't get enough traction to move. It was rather funny watching one car wanting to drive forward, but slide backwards.
Work at the school was pretty normal, got a load of boring stuff done. Managed to stay out of the way of the kids too, so I never got pelted. By the time I left, it was cold and dark again, so they'd all vanished. The trip home was fine, although as mentioned, a little hairy on the last mile and a half.
Tea tonight was the remains of the rogan josh I made last night, and I've done not much else, apart from pay the rent and watch Shanghai Noon.
One the plus side, my tooth has hardly hurt today, which is typical.
tired
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