Thsi time I was lucky, I only had sheffield today, I was there and back before 3pm, missed all the traffic, a nice day and an even nicer friday. The only que I got stuck in was Mc donalds. After taking from 3 till 11 at night to get back from manchester in those winds I'm really happy.

It wasn't pretty, luckily I didn't make the mistake of trying to go back on the motorway.

Birmingham gridlocked 4 hours to do 3 miles !

Phew, just got home 2 hours late from Birmingham. All the usual roads were either shut or gridlocked, as soon as I got into Stratford though, it was virtually snow free!

A bang on prediction there from our friendly resident weather man. Snow is heavy and having walked home from the station I made sure I had my plastic, hooded poncho on and watched where I put my feet. The ice from the previous snowfall is slippy.

more snow on the way today - warning issued for upto 10cms although 2-5 more likely

It was quite thick here, about six inches in places. I travelled to leeds and there was hardly any on the ground even though it was snowing up there all the time. travell back and although a lot had melted there was still a good covering here. I get the feeling Atherstone got more than Tamworh. If it wasn't for the traction control on the van I'd not have got out.
Interestingly this story is in this weeks Atherstone Herald
the Tamworth Herald online - news, entertainment, jobs, homes and cars
if it works.

Optrex, is there any chance you can tell the snowman there was a short delivery and to please resend it?

... I would have been tucked up in bed if I didn't have to leave here at 6.00 to catch a train, which, actually arrived and not only that seemed to be on time.

When I went to leave I stepped outside and thought ...oOo... ooh... snow!!".. oOo... Then I got sensible - just for a minute - and decided I will be soaked by the time I get to the station so called a taxi. So, off to Preston and back. Coming back I walked home from the station. A bit of light snow falling and I took a few piccies. Lots had melted so making a snowman out the back wasn't an option.

I was the same. TBH I am really disappointed at the depth and lack of flakes

Serves you right for setting up at silly o'clock! I got up at 8 and theres 2 or 3 inches of snow and its still coming down! hooray!!!!

Was up at 5.00 this morning, put the kettle on and eagerly peered out the window. No snow out there. Did the clouds blow off course?

My mother always said 'childish is as childish does'
'Is not!' i shouted, as I ran outside to play in the garden.

I admit to being a big kid at times - fun isn't it - Giggles - Not much point in being an adult if you cannot indulge the child within now and again, especially when it threatens to snow, however, I do appreciate the not so nice side of it all. Frozen snow, skidding in your car even water frozen in pipes.

You're just a big kid shiz lol .
As I said elsewhere It may be a lot by todays standards but it's not to me. I can remember getting 6 inc over and it getting compacted into ice, sitting a week getting more snow and that getting compacted. We had snow and ice on the ground for more than two weeks, three in fact, I used to do a weekly free newspaper round, and believe me 900 papers on compacted snow on sloping drives makes you remember.
Snow only closed schools if the heating broke down.
Kids from villages only didn't make it if the bus broke down.
Rain didn't stop us going to school and yes the rivers have always flooded.
The sun melted the roads and we played for hours out in it, we never got burned and we haven't got skin cancer
Leaves never stopped the trains.
What annoys me about these modern 'extremes' is that it makes a mockery of real extremes like the floods of carlisle, (where was the disaster fund for them?) or when the whole east coast of england and Scotland got flooded.
We did have the wrong kind of snow once though, a few years back,one Friday night at the end on November. It was sticky, bought all the power lines down, the phone lines too, the power going cut everyones gas heating off, the power lines affected the water treatment plants, pressure dropped and we had no water for the best part of a week. he power was off for more than 24 hours even in the centre of Atherstone.
I remember it well, dickens night was that Saturday, it was canceled of course, some of the Christmas lights hung precariously from the broken wires, a bus slipped down the regal hill and got lodged against the chip shop blocking the road, a van just further up went into a house wall, and hit a lamp post, the marks are still there in the wall. we had to get water from a bowser all week, the whole town did. We melted snow to use in the toilet. No chance of a bath or shower.
Snow didn't last long though, I think it was gone by Tuesday.

Can you not get out your pedal powered generator? Just think... pedalling for power to run the necessary things like your computer