Have you heard about the snow?

I woke up this morning to about 20cm of snow in the back garden. London is a city that sleeps on snowy days, the children were not in school, the adults were not at work, the cars did not stir from under their thick white blankets.

The street I live on is usually busy in the morning, with traffic negotiating for right of way as they try to pass each other in the narrow bits. It is a short cut from here to there. It was empty with white slippery ice filled tire tracks where some people had perservered. The main road was black and slushy with use, but also very empty, not even buses.

I bundled the children and headed out, with the 3x3 buggy making squeaky noises as the tires cut through snow. I tried to go to play group at the library, but the lady who was to take it hadn't made it. So Emily and I did coffee and watched the older children making snowmen on the green.