We are due some more though, and when the weather man bandies words around like ‘from Siberia’ or ‘from the Arctic Circle’, it sends a proverbial chill down your spine. Time to get stock up on tinned tuna, corned beef, taters and dried milk.

I’m still waiting on these Christmas present deliveries though …

At least we can work tomorrow, but it’ll be a nightmare getting there and back with the ice. Not sure if I should walk or bike?

Up to today we had perhaps 8-10 inches of snow, and sticking around too, freezing each night with more deposited on top. Then today came along. It’s been snowing fairly constantly all day, thick and thin, but still snowing. And it’s 4pm and still going.

Took some great photos though, will get them all uploaded to flickr or yfrog if I can and post a link. You know things are bad when the great big church (one of the largest steeples in the UK) only a few hundred feet away is nearly obscured by the snow falling!

Still, all in all, a very nice picturesque scene out the window. Very white christmassy feeling.

Biking to work wasn’t that bad actually, not that much ice except frozen slush underneath the snow.

But today it snowed. And snowed. So we had another inch or two to bike through, although we left work early because of the traffic issues. Lincs FM said Louth was a ‘black spot’ because of all the ice, and it was, you could see the black ice forming very thick.

The weather report doesn’t look too encouraging, more snow overnight and tomorrow, so it looks like it’s going to be an early white christmas. I’ll try to take some pics if I can, and post the ones I have too.

It had started to stick, and the cars were only just making a dent in the snow on the road, but you could tell by the sound of them as they went that it wasn’t going to stay, slush was starting already. And it wasn’t cold enough.

This morning, barely a few flakes remain. So much for that!

This morning I had issues with my internet connection too, TalkTalk are reporting problems with a broken cable in the area and BT are on it. That’ll be the day… It’s odd though that it took me 15 minutes this morning to get connected, but since then I’ve been fine. Seems more of a ‘net problem than a landline issue.

After our nearly-white Christmas, we are now promised more snow. Although I love snow (it’s one of my first memories as a kid coming back from Kuwait), I have to say I don’t love the cold that comes with it. Unfortunately the weather here seems to favour ice and freezing temperatures rather than masses of snow.

Nevertheless, as you can see from the picture taken from then, we do get snow. I’ll upload some more tonight to my Flickr account. And that was thick for us, a couple of inches, so of course being Britons, it caused mayhem and brought the country to a standstill…

My feet are really beginning to feel a bit chilly right now!

The flakes right now are coming down thick, but it’s intermittent. We’ll have 5 minutes of snow, then nothing for 30 minutes, so there’s no gathering of snow as it all melts too quickly.

Anyway, crossing fingers time, let’s hope it’s all picturesque for Christmas!

Sure some places got a lot, 20cm in London, the southeast got it quite bad but really we shouldn’t have much of a problem with this. Why do schools shut down for a few millimetres of snow?

Hey Mac, we got our snow, all of say, 10 millimetres, it was sad. I’m hoping for a bit more, but rain’s forecast so it looks like we’ve had our quota.

But honestly, I mean a white christmas. I haven’t seen one in um.. well actually I can’t remember one. I saw Mac’s post the other day about a bit of snow. A little bit, must be a Canadian understatement thing, as the car outside was swallowed up by a drift and the house opposite disappeared. A “little bit” over here seems almost laughable now.

So poor ‘ol Santa won’t have anywhere to park his sleigh.