I woke up this morning about 6am to the sound of some rain on the windows, "that", I thought to myself "is the end of the snow".
Sure enough once the sun was up enough to shed some light, you could clearly see that the tyre grooves in the compacted snow & ice were showing the road surface.
At lunch time Ying & I had a walk up the street and stepping on what had been deep, firm, dry snow was now soft and very wet slush. Everywhere you walk your feet slip as chunks of semi solid ice give way under foot. Ying saw a young lad of about 6 go for a tumble.
Without gum boots (wellies as they are known here) your feet are wet very soon.
With the temperatures expected to get as high as 6 degrees tomorrow and the following 2 days, we shall soon have no snow left, but plenty of water flowing into the Thames water system.
At least life will get back to normal and the fair weather flyers from Gatwick can get back to normal.
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