snow part 1

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 though that these sort of things always either bring out the best or worst in people. most people seem more keen to chat to strangers about the weather and tell their own personal stories of adventures in the snow. there is always the minority who get highly stressed out like the bloke in the van behind me on the above journey. while the traffic was at a standstill i got out to ask him if he knew whether the road was passable ahead only to be met with a rant full of 'fucks' about how it wasn't blocked! a very pleasant exchange... NOT!

this is a picture of the road i was stuck on...

the next day i couldn't get into work so we went for a walk around the local area and took some pics. there was so many snow pics that i tried some editing on a lot of them to try and create something different...