Bit of a blast from the past as the snow is now a distant memory and we are back with typical February cotton-wool weather. But the snow and ice clearly has awoken some sort of folk-memory of a colder type of winter for which local people and local authorities need to be ready.
Evidence of this for me is (a) talking to a local farmer at the week-end who was well up for being a sub-contractor for the county council to get out on his tractor with a plough and scoop the snow off the smaller roads that it isn't possible for the county highways teams to grit. I think he was quite looking forward to it! And (b) people saying to me they were interested in a grit box in the village so that if you want to throw a shovel of sand across the pavements to make it easier for people to get about then why not. The only issue on both counts is the health and safety, "I'll sue the pants off you" culture.
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