Snow snow quick quick snow

Well, I don't know about you but I am just about fed up with this English snow. Never enough for a proper day of snow sports, and with no drags or the like you cannot go skiing. Roll on the skiing season in France is all I can say.

What has been funny over the last few weeks is how few cars I have seen with snow chains. We have known about this snow for ages, had a bad taster a few weeks back and still refuse to take sensible precautions. When I was a lad (cue Hovis music) we prepared for the winter, with Dad changing the car tyres for winter tyres with studs in, throwing a couple of bags of sand in the boot to weigh down the back axle and a spade to dig us out of trouble. These days no one carries anything, or so I thought until today.

You see, a few weeks back I bought snow chains for the Disco, and was waiting for a wheel nut adaptor to arrive. I found out today my supplier was not going to get them in stock until the New Year, so with a new batch of snow on the way, I started ringing round. Well, either no one had any left ("sold the last one this morning mate" was a familiar story) or the 'phones were on divert as they were so busy. No option for it - jump in the car and track them down. Well, to cut a long story short I found some adaptors in Tunbridge Wells, but the point of the story is that the queues outside of the specialist snow chains shops I visited were enormous - one must have cleared over £2,500 in walk-in business whilst I was waiting. So hopefully more people will be able to get around in the latest batch of snow and not end up clogging up the roads in ill-prepared cars.

Rant over!