After hard snow all night we woke up to this!! and still snowing, cant remember the last time it was like this. Probably in those nostalgia filled days when I was a kid living in Bacup when every winter it seemed to have at least 2 foot of snow!
I looked at the front of the house to see nothing moving and new it would be foolish to venture out in the car. So after getting Lisa up and the dogs ready we went out to see who was foolish enough!! Brilliant, we went down to Worsley road to witness people struggling in their cars probably on the way to the Trafford Centre. Kids emerged from every direction with sledges, god only knows where they had been storing those for the last 10 years.
We ploughed on to the field managing to ignore the smug smiles of every 4x4 driver, one week of the year their vehicle pays for itself and don't they know it!
The field was about 8 inches thick and virgin white until we embarked up on it and let the dogs unleash a torrent of yellow snow! Leaving this for the sledgers we rushed back to the co-op to witness the panic buying first hand! The shelves were empty with people fighting to stock up on bread, milk and most importantly alcohol.
After all this excitement it was time to return home and defrost the snowballs off the dogs legs, which were now so big that Oscar was rolling home and Eddie walking like he had an overfull colostomy bag !
No painting today as the studio is -5, will venture out to Pool arts this afternoon to make my stretcher for this years BP portrait competition and prime the boards for the Newcastle paintings that I have started. Might just pop into Tesco on the way and load a trolley full of bread and Milk just to get the ball rolling!
