New topic of conversation - or is it ?? Snow

Thursday night, and yes, the dreaded snow has returned - did not get the chance to arrive unexpectedly - arrived with a full fanfare, new transport Minister and lots of snow ploughs lying in wait at strategic points around the country.

So back to Tuesday, had a heart razing session at the Hospital, blood pressure was so high the Dr. thought I was ill !! however I did calm down and have the go ahead for next week.

Made it back to The Mercat Bar where the troops gathered for a very long "session" , great lunch, fine wines and excellent company ( SLTA and friends) - enough said - but there were plenty of bottles going into the recycling bin !!!

Wednesday- headed south on the M6, making for Risley and then Birmingham. weather was fine, traffic generally well behaved and with a good tail wind made great time making both offices while there were staff still working. I had planned on staying over as usual, but with the bad forecast thought it might be prudent to head for home - bad move as I ended up in a massive traffic jam between J9 / J 10 on the M6 - appeared to be a very bad accident as one of the cars was flattened.
Long story short - made it, via Glasgow, in the wee sma hours shattered, 660 miles and a tiring day. ( I even spotted one of our McEwans buses at 12 mn heading south for Dumfries on the M6 - what a great service)

Wakened to fine that the snow had arrived and for a while there was a bit of a white out - but it stopped and the sun came out, and a while later the buses started back on the run past the house.
I was heading for the town and was most impressed with the JCB snowplough that came down the road and stopped in the bus stop - what a lovely piece of machinery.

Onto the bus and from the top deck was incensed by the driver of the red car in the photo who was so lazy they could not be bothered clearing off the snow.

I later had to go collect my car which was already in the town and parked in the NCP car park in Morrison Street - what a "bl**dy disgrace", charging £9.70 p a day, no attempt made to clear the snow for the past week, the place is now solid ice - a veritable death trap, so treacherous under foot - shocking. AND the security flood lights are still not working - after a year.

The big puddle is so deep I think it will take divers to recover any motorist who is unfortunate to end up in it.

Currently watching the Royal Variety Performance on the TV, it has been excellent, however a certain Miss Cheryl Cole has unfortunately had to follow Russell (The Voice) Watson, and our very own Susan (Subo) Boyle - who has had a Number One in the USA for the last five weeks.