we have had an unsually large amount of snow for the city, parts of gloucestershire can often get a it of snow in the winter but we don't usually get much. we have had snowy weather all week and mostly it has been great fun! it started snowing heavily on tuesday afternoon while i was at work, i left at about 2pm to go to my son, lee's flat. normally the journey would take about half an hour but due to the weather it took 3 hours! it wasn't too bad to start with but as the road got more snow on it driving became pretty difficult with 20mph being the average speed. i was about 4 miles from cheltenham when a woman flagged me down. she had crashed her car on the ice and wanted to get to cheltenham. the weather was too bad to get a rescue vehicle out for her car so she jumped in with me and we continued. almost immediatly traffic came to a standstill and from then on we crawled at snails pace into the town. at least i had some company for some of the trecirous journey! must say