There are trips and there are trips.
Confident in the weather forecast (yeah.....) we went to bed last night and awoke to find it hand not rained; no, it had snowed.
But not only had it snowed it had frozen too.
Oh joy!
So a drive out to Daycastle really was going to be a load of laughs.
When we had got to the top of a drive after about 15 minutes of 2 tyres a sliding, (which day of Xmas is it?) I could see a pattern emerging.
20 minutes to get to the top of one of the local hills with the 806 sliding all over the place on a sheet of ice.
Then it got really frightening.
Driving down the motorway with the lights telling us the speed limit was now 30. Something to do with lane 3 having rather a lot of slush and snow on it. People driving nose to tail at 70 over that.
That's terrifying; one mistake, one minor slip and 50 or 60 cars would be sliding all over the road hitting things and each other.
Fortunately by the time we came to head for home the traffic was still all heading East.
Hopefully it would have cleared by the time we got home and yes some of it had been. The last couple of uphill country lane miles were just the same, except of course this time we were going uphill.
"Hang on" I said, trying to keep the momentum up, "we might slide a bit on the second corner!".
WRONG.
The first corner: front end let go and into the hedge we went, the back end slid round, some furious steering and keep the power oning and we brosdsided into the second corner and and into the opposite hedge before ricocheting off up the road.
A bit chaotic messy and not quite formula one but we got there.
Management said but one word:
"NNNNNGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNGGGGHHHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHEEEEEEETTTTTTKEEEEEERRRRRIIIISSSSSSTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFOOOOORRRRRKIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
I think it was - anyway, not a language I have heard before.
She didn't say much for a bit after that and her knuckles, gripping the dash, with that strong firm grip of hers were nearly as white as the driven snow in the fields around us.
R
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Why on earth are you expected to drive in these conditions?
Even over here where most of the valley bottom roads are clear, the advice is to stay put unless you really have to- and if you do, proceed with caution!
I have to drive or risk having some kids at home tomorrow.
Not a difficult judgment call...
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