Snow. Quite important snow!


We have about 6 inches (according to the radio). I'd say 4 in our garden. Of course, 15 cm sounds much more than 6 inches, and 10 cm more than 4 inches.

We are listening keenly to Radio France Bleu Gironde to try to find out if the schools are open but frankly, I drove home through the snow from Floirac last night and I am not keen on driving in it this morning. The roads had not been gritted before the snow and it was really quite slippery, even when fresh!

No trams are running. Some buses are running but only inside the boulevards (inner ring roads). Otherwise there are no school buses and all is at a standstill.My bigger concern is the Bible Study this evening. If the buses don't run then I can't get in to the centre. We'll see.

In Bordeaux it doesn't take a lot of snow to bring things to a standstill. One of our lecturers explained that it makes more sense to accept a few days of disruption every now and again than to pay out a fortune for gritters and snow-ploughs that would simply not be used at all most years.
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Anonymous said…
AH! You have beaten us to it.You have snow before us, but you are further South, that shouldn't be so. Tell Catrin and Gwilym to get going and build a nice big snowman. Sorry if that's a bit infantlie, but it has to be done! If they want to be radical they could create a snow sculpture of something else. I'm sure you can believe that when I was teaching, at the slightest hint of snow in the air, I would take the whole class outside and we would be using all our senses to experience what we could. Well, you have to make the most of it when it comes. Then you go back inside into the warm, cuddle a radiator and have a warm drink. Lovely!
Alan said…
Well I made it into the Bible Study, though it took twice as long as normal! I was glad I went, too, because we were in John 8, and we were talking about the nature of sin - the woman and the scribes and pharisees - the "disease" and the "symptoms" - and how God can be just and justify guilty people. It was good and important for those who were there. And we were not a bad number.

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