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THE SNOW IS STILL FALLING!! Yes, if you haven't heard already the UK is currently in a state of 'panic' as snow has bought the whole nation to a sudden standstill. We are experiencing the heaviest snowfall in 30 years here in the UK! The are loving it, especially since they haven't really seen proper snow before in their lifetimes. And 80% of the schools and colleges/universities are closed! Because the teachers just can't get in to work. Roads are closed, either due to black ice or simply because there the snow is too deep. The car wheels just churn up the snow and get stranded if any drivers attempt to drive to work. Some drivers can not even get their cars out of their drives, the snow is that thick! Roads are too treacherous to use and snow covered cars have been left abandonded on the streets as drivers make a frantic escape home through the blizzard conditions. My husband was one of the few in our street last week who drove to work! It took him 20 minutes to get to the end of our road, and then the car could not make it up the hill. Luckily two men stopped by in a van and helped to give his car a good push up the hill. When he got home from work he struggled to park the car back in the drive! I've heard in Canada there is a law that property owners have to dig the snow out of their driveways! The local councils are running out of salt to grit the icy roads. They had never stocked up enough in the first place, as Britain just never gets snow to this extreme! Therefore it is only the major roads that are being gritted. The minor routes, like ours, residential areas etc, are just having to cope with the snowed in roads. I have never seen so many people actually WALKING to the shops to get their food this past fortnight. It really is something like out of the blitz age, lol! Cars just remain parked in the drive, most never risking to venture out in the icelandic like conditions. The local supermarkets shelves are looking bare as lorries struggle to reach the countryside with food supplies. We are currently experiencing a shortage of white bread, lol! I don't mind, as I only eat brown/wholemeal myself, but my girls wont eat anything other than white! We have our wheelie bins still outside in the snow on the roadside waiting to be collected by the bin men. They've been there since New Years Eve, and there's no sign of the bin lorry making it through the snow!! We are piling our rubbish bags up in the garage since all the bins are now full to the brim. It is quiet outside, bleak looking. You can count the few cars that drive past our house now, and you can usually hear them getting stuck in the snow, as their wheels churn and groan through the snow. It is even dangerously icy on foot, already they've have been several deaths reported on the TV new due to pedestrians slipping on the ice and being hit with hypothermia. There was even talk of gas supplies running out what with the whole nation whopping up their heating in the sub zero temperatures. I was out in our back garden the other day taking some photos and almost got frost bite on my fingers, lol, it was that cold! Personally though, I am ENJOYING the wintry scenes that greet us when we pull back our curtains each morning!! It really does feel Christmassy, with all the trees and shrubs draped in snow and the glistening sun on the white outdoors. I still have our Christmas tree up in the conservatory, it makes me feel so happy, like Christmas is till here, I know so like. I really ought to take It down this weekend!! But I don't want to. With all the cold outside it's nice to have the warm glow of the Christmas lights indoors!! Oh don't get me wrong we took down all the icicle lights and decorations from out the front of the house once new year came, but it's just the 7ft Christmas tree (of which I am most proud) that I am dragging my heels to take down. I got down the boxes ready to pack the tree and baubles away but I don't know, I just do not have the motivation to pack them away and put up in the loft right now. All the snow is keeping my mind in permanent a state of CHRISTMAS MAGIC!! And the snow is falling agin today, weather conditions are set to get worse next week!! Our nation is about to learn a severe lesson in snow! WHEN WILL IT ALL GET BACK TO NORMAL?????????????? 
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hope it will back to normal soon,,, cloudy here today and hoping for the rest of the week coz last week its very hot... the most beautiful view is the one I share with you
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