Beast from the East

I've seen more snow here during this winter than I have in the last 7 years!

First time (December?) was awesome! Woke up early to go and take some pics as I'd know it would melt in a matter of hours.

Second time (Jan or Feb) was still thrilling, and there was more snow than before! People went out to make snow men and have snowball fights. Don't think I've ever seen some of my staff so happy :D (the ones who weren't working that is :D). It lasted a day.

Third time we got the Beast from the East and it crippled the town! Well actually in the town we had a reasonable amount of snow (for days on end so people started grizzling already) and nothing horrible as you'd read on the news. Panic! Mkm not here...

Oh wait... except for the fact we were completely cut off from the rest of the world... Most roads in and out of town were officially closed. And if you're one of the ones making fun of the brits for not able to cope with a little snow, just remember they do not have winter tyres! And roads are extremely narrow, and there's a f***** hill everywhere! Would you be happy driving in these conditions? Crazy eh? 

So that happened over the last weekend of Feb. No deliveries were able to reach any of the shops and of course EVERYWHERE ran out of MILK. And we have 5 big supermarkets + a few smaller convenience shops. People were asking on facebook groups "where in town still has milk??????" I don't understand the obsession... oh yeah... tea drinking culture... For the record I hate milk...

Then there were threats of the mini beasts from the east a few weekends after the original... It was supposed to come Easter weekend, totally killing our little tourist town... But the weather was actually quite nice, cold though but sunny.

I think it's only now it's getting warmer... Hey I even left my coat at home yesterday :D Oh I remember my first year here when we had heatwave in March :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz....