On 2013-11-09 12:52:07 +0000, Martin said:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:53:31 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-11-09 09:27:20 +0000, Ophelia said:

"sacha" wrote in message
...
. While predictable weather would be lovely in many ways, when
I've experienced it over months, I just occasionally found myself longing
for a day when it wasn't inevitably sunny but there'd be a good English
downpour.

Oh how I missed that in India!!! I so know what you mean! Another
place we lived we never saw snow. Our first winter home and it
snowed, I was so entranced that I think I stood at that window nearly
all day. Soon get used to it again though

We always get excited about snow here, too. It doesn't happen every
year and not always in large quantities. When that happens, it does
lose its charm quickly!

As soon as the snow turns to ice on the roads and pavements.

It so rarely happens here but if it does, I try not to drive. I'm just
not used to it and there's exceedingly little room to manoeuvre in
these lanes. Last year, when there was some ice, Ray tried to stop an
impatient driver turning off a main road onto one of our narrow lanes.
This person pulled past him and zoomed up the lane anyway, only to zoom
back out again quickly when he saw the Tesco van sliding straight down
it towards him! Both were very lucky that a usually busy main road was
empty at the time.
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Sacha
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