Snowy Feb

The drive home from Carmarthen was very Grey last night. The snow clouds loomed and parts of Mid Wales were hit badly. Luckily the snow stayed away from Ceredigion, but I heeded the travel advice and stayed away from those treacherous roads. The good news is that I managed to clear a lot of work and emails and now feel on top of the World. The bad news is that all of the snow will soon be gone, the picturesque landscape will change and summer will be upon us. That’s good news for those looking forward to the Summer break but bad for me as I haven’t decided where we will spend our holiday this year.

Snow, snow, and more snow. Brrrrrrrrrrr

It may have been -10 when I last blogged on the 7 January 2009, but gosh it’s getting cold today. The snow hit the UK like a runaway bus; whoosh and the roads were clogged. Mind you, with chaos all around – I managed to travel from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen, onto Milford Haven, back to Swansea into Cardiff and up through Merthyr and Builth Wells and across what I affectionately know as the Khyber Pass. For those of you who live in Canada, the States or Ghana, it would be worth looking the route up on a map. Some 350 miles with various roads closed at various times. But not closed for me when I ploughed my way through for work. Strange isn’t it, I wonder how many people stayed at home and claimed that they were snowed in when I travelled the length and breadth of West and South Wales and across some notoriously difficult tracts of land.

The snow has taken the UK by surprise and some County Councils are now using Table Salt to grit the roads. Whereas in Canada you are probably thinking; “that’s not snow”. While in Ghana a few people are probably wondering; “what is snow?” A strange World indeed as I believe that it is now the hot season in Accra. Well it’s certainly hot when Michael gets in touch. Not so much the four seasons, but one. Well, varieties of one; hot, very hot, and blinking hot over here mate.

Take care everyone and just to let you know it’s nice to be back! I have been poorly and very tired for about six weeks and only now emerging out of hibernation. And just when I think it’s safe to venture out, bang – it snows.