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Feb. 8th, 2007 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaThe bloke on the front desk tells me the building is closing at 3.30 today. Sounds good to me!
Trudging to work through the couple of inches of snow we've had overnight (getting very wet in the process) and thinking about how this is the first snow of the winter for Cardiff reminded me of a story my great-grandad used to tell us about when he was a little boy growing up in Norfolk. He was born in 1899, so it would have been the early 1900s, and they lived in the middle of nowhere so he would have to walk 10 miles to school every day. One day they had very heavy snow, but he set off as usual, and trudged his way through that heavy snow - until he suddenly took a step forward and landed in a massive snowdrift. Turned out, he'd been walking along the top of a six foot hedge without even knowing it, the snow was so deep! We don't get snow like that in these parts any more. A couple of inches is enough to ruin everyone's day!
Trudging to work through the couple of inches of snow we've had overnight (getting very wet in the process) and thinking about how this is the first snow of the winter for Cardiff reminded me of a story my great-grandad used to tell us about when he was a little boy growing up in Norfolk. He was born in 1899, so it would have been the early 1900s, and they lived in the middle of nowhere so he would have to walk 10 miles to school every day. One day they had very heavy snow, but he set off as usual, and trudged his way through that heavy snow - until he suddenly took a step forward and landed in a massive snowdrift. Turned out, he'd been walking along the top of a six foot hedge without even knowing it, the snow was so deep! We don't get snow like that in these parts any more. A couple of inches is enough to ruin everyone's day!
