Not really because I love the snow, but am starting to recall some of the drawbacks of adverse weather conditions.
For example, I spent yesterday 8 hours (seriously) trapped on a broken down train from London to Hastings, much of it spent without light or heat. The entire journey, including being moved from one train to another, and then walking through 16 carriages in the dark, before eventually being loaded onto buses for the final late night crawl into a deserted Hastings, took 10 hours. 10 hours!!! The whole story is too long to recount here, but needless to say a Blitz spirit endured and it was, mostly, a fun experience.
I finally arrived at my sister's house, where Lol's birthday was being celebrated, at 11.30pm. It was like walking into a Southern Comfort ad, where everyone is blind drunk and in high spirits, rugged up indoors against the fierce weather outside. Ended up being a brilliant and very late night. Today the schools are closed, we can't move our car, which Rob had to abandon near my sister's house last night and we'll be walking home later to light the fire and start putting up our Christmas decorations. Huzzah!
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