Snow, Snow and Snow

Woke up in Grimsby to more snow this morning with the road outside looking very icy indeed. Mum gave us breakfast of cereal and croissants and Tom and I then went to Ramsden’s to replace the toy vacuum cleaner I had bought for Mary in August with a cuddly toy. I also bought milk and a Christmas pudding for our lunch. We the drove up to Auntie Mim’s to deliver and collect Christmas presents and spent a lovely hour with her. Davenport Drive was treacherous and I had to drive extremely carefully. Mum cooked us a lunch of chicken with all the trimmings followed by Christmas pudding all of which Tom ate with relish. We left Grimsby at about 2 p.m. stopping to refuel the car on Cleethorpe Road. Once on the A180 the road surface was fine until we reached Brigg where the snow started to fall with ever increasing intensity until it reached blizzard proportions along the M180 by Scunthorpe and Crowle. The snow abated by Hatfield and the sun came out on the Doncaster stretch of the M18. However, the sky got blacker and blacker towards the north and the snow started falling again as we joined the M1. The traffic crawled along the southbound M1 (20-30 mph) right down to east midlands Airport with the snow falling quite heavily at times. However, once south of Nottingham the snow disappeared completely and we saw green fields again in the dusk. We finally got back to an icy Winterslow at 7.30 p.m. It was nice to come home to a warm fire and bread and butter pudding made to Sara’s mother’s recipe. After such a long and tiring day we went to bed at the unusually early hour of 11.30 p.m.