We got snow...well 4"....

How wonderful to wake up this morning to some beautiful serene glorious snow. Albeit it has brought most of the country to a standstill Me and hubby were talking about our childhoods when it really snowed....I mean 6' drifts, my Dad used to open the front door to face a huge bank of it, he used to clear a pathway and me and my two brothers would force our way through 3' deep pavements of the stuff. It used to stay around for weeks and refreeze and then the pavements would be thick with 4" of ice...oh those were the days hey? Mind you we did have local shops then in my childhood home. A local greengrocers, a grocers that sold a bit of everything and a sweet shop. So with these 3 stores if one was snowed in everything was catered for. Nowadays with more cars/traffic/people....out of town supermarkets, how things have changed....so 6-10" of the white stuff brings total chaos. But hubby is off work this week and we have just been for a walk locally with the snow biting into our cheeks, we stopped by the local church which looked so pretty and then the park where all the children were playing so nicely together, it did make us smile. Also the number of people actually walking, well I haven't seen it like that for ages.
It has been years since we have seen any serious amount of snow on the south coast of England....but I would imagine with our weather it will all have disappeared by the end of the week...but for now I and hubby will enjoy. x

PS....Out of interest if anyones also into cooking/baking....I started a blog with my attempts....actually its nice to have piccys to look back on...so if you enjoy this sort of thing...it can be found here...http://lovingmyrangecooker.blogspot.com/.....bye for now.