Snow Away

What a palarver yesterday! It snowed. And I, for one, wasn't expecting it to...I was too trusting of the headline which said "There won't be snow, but there will be heavy rain". LIARS!! I was sitting on a H&S course (fun times) when I looked out of the window at a complete white out. By the time we were released at lunchtime there was a few centimetres of snow...and guess what...I was in heels!!! Cue hilarious scenes of me trying to walk across site in the syle of Bambi.

I sent Stephen to go move the car from the car park we were in which has a steepish slope out and as soon as he came back he was adamant that we had to leave NOW if we were to stand a chance of getting home. At just before 3pm when we left there was closer to 4 inches of snow on the ground...and yet we were told it wasn't snowing in Worcester!

In addition to the snow, there was a major fire on one of the main roads through Malvern, so it was blocked off, and there had been a bump at Barnards Green so traffic had ground to a halt there. We were struggling to get up even the most minor of slopes in our car, so after sitting for 15 minutes we decided to head away from the hills and try an alternate route home.

It turned out to be a wise choice as I don't think Malvern traffic improved for many hours and at least the lengthy detour kept us moving. Worcester was getting snow by the time we got there, but nothing like Malvern. It was altogether more passable! We did fine until we tried to turn down the main road towards our street...and didn't! We glided straight on past!

This is our usual route home (approx 5 miles/20 minutes)

This is the route we ended up taking - via Worcester (approx 12 miles and nearly 2 hours)

This toboggan run was the second winter Olympics event I had competed in this week. I did my best impression of Jayne Torville's climactic finish to Bolero on Tuesday. We were walking into the canteen and I slipped on what, on inspection, appeared to be nothing and landed (not very gracefully) siting down on one knee with the other leg out to the side. I told you it was all very Jayne Torville!! Dean was not a great deal of help though!! There was no rushing to my side to help me up, until I insisted upon it! I think I scored maybe 4.2 for technical merit, but 6.0 for artistic impression...I'm sure the operators of any security cameras in the area will have a view and a chance to win cash on You've Been Framed!!