Driving on the ice

The icy weather brings out the worst in a lot of motorists. This morning for example I was driving quite carefully because of the ice on the roads, then when I got to the first roundabout a Land Rover pulled out before me from the turning after mine. He then carried on driving fairly slowly along the straight stretch of road. Then as we were going up the hill towards the traffic lights, he saw they were green, and then sped off over the lights.
Other mornings I’ve seen people not bothered about clearing their cars of snow (just a little bit where the wipers go across the windscreen). Then when they get down to the first junction and have to look left and right before pulling out, they realise that they can’t wind their side window down, so they open up their car door to see what’s coming. The guy did that for turning left, but what’s he going to do if he has to turn right? Open his door and the passenger door?

Snow

So it's been snowing for a week or so on and off. All the councils have run out of grit for the roads and bus a train services were cancelled in some parts of the country.

Schools have been closed and parents have had to stay away from work to look after them. I remember when I was a kid having to still go to school. we were made to play outside in the ice, teachers hated having kids inside the school during breaks and dinnertime. I even remember the once having to walk all the way home in the snow when they decided to take the buses off the roads.