Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road.
That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told
them there's a
thaw on the way :-(
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Well, lucky old you!

Our street hasn't been touched by plough or gritter.
Consequently there are still several inches of soggy snow lying
on top of the ice created by compaction of earlier snow by cars.

It is thawing, but slowly. I can now see the top inch and a half
or so of the cage above my birdfeeder, which was all but buried
on Monday. The cage is about a foot high, so that only about one
eighth of the depth of snow has melted in the three days since
Monday. Simple logic suggests that it could take some time yet
for it all to disappear. So it is likely that the roadway too
will take several more days to clear.

I am unable to take the car out, because if I did I would almost
certainly not be able to get it back into the drive unaided
owing to the ice in the roadway.

My elderly neighbours, unlike me, do not have the option of
walking to the shops pr bus stop.

In the next street, which was almost clear of snow on Monday,
and certainly did not have enough snow cover to incommode even
an incompetent driver in a powerful rear-wheel-drive car, there
is a squad of contractors meticulously scraping the very last
vestiges of snow off the roadway.

Priorities?

Anne