FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!!!!!!!!!!

[steve_earwig]

Hi there. I just had an interesting experience. It was cold last night and this morning it was raining - result, about 3mm of ice over everything. It was firmly glued onto the car and I had to let it sit an idle for a while before I could chisel the stuff off. Of course, my other half left a load of shopping for today so I was without choice. They'd gritted the roads so the main ones weren't too bad but the pavements were a nightmare, people sliding about all over the shop.

While we were I out I thought I may as well go home to feed my cats (I'm staying at hers full time to save on heating). My road wasn't so good so I thought I'd better pull out the way onto my driveway. Mistake. My driveway is about 50 yards long and quite a slope down the side of the house to where the garages are where it's flat. It looked ok and it didn't even cross my mind it could be a problem. So I slowly pulled on backwards, put the brakes on and slid all the way to the bottom. Still backwards, still slowly and panicking all the way because I didn't know if I'd spin round and hit the house or end up hitting the trees at bottom.

Fortunatly we stopped outside the garages and after about a minute I'd calmed down and we tried to get out - ice skating anyone? It took us 10 minutes to get from the car to my house! I bought some snow chains a few months back but do you think I could work out how to fit the things? When I got them I meant to try fitting them in the dry but I kind of forgot. "Put the green part towards.." "What effing green part??!" I managed to get ther loop behind the tyre and the chains to the front but for the life of me I couldn't work out how it all fits together. Anyway, my neighbours came to the rescue with ashes and salt so, after some more sliding about, we finally managed to escape.

And now it's snowing

[TooT]

For a second then i thought you were going to end up parked in the garage without opening the garage door

[steve_earwig]

Nah, they're off to the side. At the bottom are some pine trees, then the (derelict) swimming pool, then a slope down to the garden and a huge apple tree. I think I was very lucky to get away with it but I'll be waking up in a cold sweat for months.

Speaking of cold sweat, I've just been clearing the snow off. Even though I know full well it'll either all be gone tomorrow or there'll be another foot of the stuff. White Christmas? It's a good job Bing Crosby's already dead, saves me the job of killing him.

[teamster1975]

How long have you been living over there Steve?
Just out of curiosity!

[steve_earwig]

Since May '04.