There are a few folk on the street who make a bit of an effort, me included. Sadly there are plenty who don’t, yet the grit bin is often emptied mysteriously and people’s front steps and drive covered in grit, yet the road to them still covered in snow…nobody will be surprised to learn this is Surrey.
Of our 6 flats, my immediate neighbour is a star, always getting on with it, but most others don’t bother and I’ve occasionally had to clear our whole shared drive (moderate 20 yard slope) on my own whilst the others watched from their windows. Funny how I then only did mine and said immediate neighbours car spaces, eh? I bought the communal shovel, neighbour bought our grit.
No proper snow here though this time, but the roads were damp and temperature dropping, so went out to the grit box by the short steep bit of the street, only to find the grit completely solid and I hadn’t brought any sort of tool out. Scraped enough with my gloves to get the key bit done…hopefully.
Over at Leith Hill earlier. Reckon it would be fun riding on the Surrey Hills tomorrow morning, proper snow mostly confined to the top 100 feet but couple of inches of proper crunchy snow. Lower down was slush which will freeze tonight to nastyness I suppose…
