Bad day to lose a glove

Wow, it was just like winter this morning! And what a strange mix of noises: our street was dead quiet - blocked by a car that had slid sideways until it rested nicely up against another - but round the corner and it was all screaming engines and spinning tyres as drivers who'd never tried to get up the hill in the snow before enjoyed that less than wonderful experience.

I was smirking a bit less tonight though when I came home and the street was almost sheet ice but the snow tyres that I'd bought for driving in Bavaria (where there was no snow) were just the business - no skidding, no sliding, no bashed car!