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Sorry to have been maintaining radio silence....... but I have been battling the elements and battling Christmas shoppers...... Its been mega snow in the UK in the last couple of days......... jamming Heathrow and other airports.......... I only just slid in hours before the snow on Friday and the White-out of Saturday.

Today Sunday...... I drove up to my folks place in the Warwickshire Countryside........ massive traffic problems on the M40 and elsewhere....... so I ended up taking the M1....... but even on the M1..... problems .......... by the time I got to junction 11 it was a solid jam ........ I sat for an hour...... but was so bored with it....... I couldn't take it anymore ......... so I decided to go off piste........ tootling about in a rear wheel drive car on small totally uncleared and un-gritted roads........ er....... lets face it....... bit unwise......... but kind of fun......... and kind of madly hassley and stressy.......... after a whole ton of drama and about an hour of sliding up and down all most impassable roads I was finally able to rejoin the M1 at the next junction......... only to find myself back in the jam right next to the vehicle I had been next to before opting for all that totally unnecessary drama........ hehehe.......... thats got to be a repeating theme in my life......... :-))

I did feel......... I really should concentrate on the driving......... so I did not shoot any of that snow blocked roads drama..........

When I finally arrived at my folks this evening the light was fading.......... I was looking from their garden across the snow covered fields......... just for a couple of minutes as i shot this........ I could see some sheep pushed up into the hedges........ it might be as cold as minus 14 out there tonight....... OK things get bad .......... on occasion things don't go right ............ and hey....... just sometimes you make a bad call :-) ...... but you know what.......... You only have to consider the life of a sheep out on a minus 14 night...... just in passing .......... to think ...... hey........... It might have been a vaguely frustrating day......... but I haven't got it so bad............ in fact thats what I thought as I headed into the warmth of my Mum and Dad's place for a nice cup of tea with my family ......... :-))

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