{"id":1606,"date":"2009-12-18T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T10:44:15","slug":"the-first-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"The First Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a lesson at 7.45 this morning… there was a dusting of snow last night, and the temperature was fixed on 0\u00b0C (it still is, even at 10.30am with the sun shining). But I noticed a couple of things…<\/p>\n

First of all, the number of roads which hadn’t been gritted. I took my pupil past the Chalfont Drive Test Centre and the road was slick with black ice and compacted snow (we may have had only a slight dusting, but it was a little more in some places). I don’t think for a moment that any of the 8.10, 8.20, or 8.40 tests went out – but they could have done if the gritters had done their job.<\/p>\n

It’s annoying, because this cold weather has been forecast for a week – and especially seeing that\u00a0last year, the biggest hazard on the road was the grit! They were shovelling the stuff on in lorry-loads full.\u00a0I sometimes wonder what the Nottingham City and County Councils (and whoever their bureaucracy says is responsible for gritting)\u00a0actually do for a living, because whatever it is it is rarely the appropriate thing. I should imagine they were all in meetings this morning discussing where<\/strong> to grit.<\/p>\n

The second thing I noticed was the number of drivers who – as usual – haven’t got it into their heads yet the two most important things:<\/p>\n

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