4 Feb - Bragging rights and news
Nice one we've done some ice this year, Shadowfax and I. Last year there was only 2-weeks of winter, which I covered using Ka's Freelander - an AWESOME snow eater, if ever there was. This year I missed 4-days to the most depressing trains a 3 to 'working from home'. We caught an 80mph, 200m frozen snow patch A33 dual carriageway; a completely impassable frozen over country road East of Wickham on diversion off the A32 directed by a Rozzer young enough to ask what sort of bike the Sinclair zx80 was; a frantic 300m tip-toe ski in Reading where salt is against it's principles; a forcast dry day's 0.5cm snowfall settled across all carriageways Droxford to Spanish Green; a frozen splash at the water access Southern approach to Droxford; a mud spill entry to Alton unseen at night; a mud spill north of Alto on a ben ( still there); a mud splat from a lorry run aground at West Meon; and a way ward rear end one morning on sheet ice here to work. Now THIS has been winter