SNOW DAYS

The snow, while it remained, looked very beautiful and gave the world a muffled quality but caused major disruption to everyone's lives. To judge by the main service provider's reactions one would think a serious catastrophe had struck the land, so ab-so-lutely im-poss-ible was it to do anything: no trains, no buses, no post, roads impassable. Only the milkman emerges from this story with any decency, delivering his pints of milk throughout this period with absolute reliability; as a result, he now has hero-status. Anyway, one heavy bout of rainfall and the chaos is over, phew.

postscript: one very sad tale amid the beauty of the snowy blanket though: some of the bees, sensing sunshine, ventured bravely out, only to meet a terrible frozen snow fate :(