The view from my office this evening.
I was late leaving for work this morning due to the phone ringing and putting me off schedule. As I left the house I was dreading trying to open my car door due to it’s tendency to freeze shut and I didn’t want another near miss like I had on Monday. I also remembered to check why I was getting strange noises from my tyres as I arrived home last night. I found that so much compacted snow had built up between the tyre and the mudguard it was making a scraping sound and I needed to chip it off before I could drive off.
The snow has compacted really badly on the roads on my estate leaving it very much like an ice rink, so I had to drive very carefully as I left for work this morning. The main roads however where mostly clear but I am sure that there would have been patches of black ice so due care and attention was needed. So why do other people drive recklessly in less than ideal conditions? And why is it always me the gets the car behind me trying to get into my car boot? When I stopped at the junction I noticed it was a lady driver happily driving along talking on her mobile phone. I had the urge to get out of the car and tell her off (most unlike me), I put that down to the fact I don’t do mornings well.
The car park was lethal. I had the choice of parking my car in the sun a long way away from the building and risk breaking my neck on the car park which hadn’t been gritted or park in the shade nearer to the building and risk the door icing over later. I chose the latter so I didn’t have far to walk across the ice.
When I got to my desk my colleagues were busily planning a birthday celebratory meal for one of the girls in the office and everybody who sits near me is attending. I seem not to have been invited, maybe it is because I am on a different section, or maybe it was something I said or perhaps I have managed to do my very clever turning invisible trick again… :-/
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 7th 2010
Delays earlier this evening meant I have been in a mad rush to get all the Christmas decorations down. Now I know some of you will say they should have been taken down yesterday but my family has always done them on the 6th (unless they got bored of them earlier). So please excuse just one last Christmas picture, which is very topical for the weather. It is a bit late now and I need to relax so I have poured myself a glass of wine to chill out.
We did eventually get a bit of snow in my neck of the woods. It snowed for most of yesterday evening although the flakes were very fine. I know how much James likes the snow so I thought it was my duty to get some photos. I hope the neighbours didn’t see me standing in my darkened upstairs room, camera in hand. I must have looked like some sort of peeping Tom, well I do hope the photographs were worth it…
And finally a picture from this morning before the weather warmed up turning the winter wonderland back to grey dullness.
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2010
The sky this morning was nowhere near as beautiful as it was yesterday. There was no sunrise but there were a few flakes of snow falling. I was wondering if it would turn into something that would stop me going into work but it didn’t look too promising on that count. So I managed to navigate my way around cars that were parked awkwardly and get off my estate to make my way into work. By the time I arrived the snow had stopped falling.
The sun did peep through the clouds around lunch time but just after that the eerie fog we often get around the building, descended in the distance and rolled it’s way towards us.
When I left for the evening the fog had lifted and I could feel snow in the air. By the time I had reached my car a few flakes had started to fall but by the time I got home it had changed it’s mind again. I wonder if it is going to sneak up on us overnight?
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 5th 2010
I thought I would take advantage of this rather nice sunrise instead of my usual sunset pictures. I think I was really just using delaying tactics on my first day back to work after the Christmas break. My car needed scraping and the door was a bit frozen up causing me to struggle to open it. I nearly ended up flat on my back in the middle of the front lawn, wouldn’t that have been a treat for the neighbours 
The sunrise was a lot more interesting than work was and the office was rather chilly all morning.
There was a bit of excitement with the air ambulance hovering near to the local shopping centre, we wondered if there had been a crash but sadly we found out later that someone had thrown themselves off the multi story car park. I also learned that one of my colleagues from the Shropshire Action Group had passed away just before Christmas.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2010
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream
Malcolm Muggeridge
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2010
I saw this whilst I was out and about over the Christmas period. But where did I see it?
20 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2010
