November 2005

Saturday, November 26, 2005

It Snowed!

Saturday 26th November 2005

On Thursday night it snowed about 4 inches over here! Everything was covered in a pristine blanket of white, and it was great fun to make lots of footprints in the perfectly flat virgin patches of snow everywhere.


Schools were cancelled for the day, and many people couldn't get to work because of the snow on the roads. We were watching people trying to drive up and down the hill and failing miserably, then abandoning their cars in some instances!!! The snow is still on the ground now, but melting slowly. Apparently we are in for more of it though, this is supposed to be the coldest winter that Britain has had in a decade or something like that.

We made a snowman in James' front garden, and he has lasted until today when his head fell off!

I am waiting now for my Uncle Mick to get home from shopping so that we can put some antifreeze in my car. Never had to do that before! And they have this stuff called freezing fog over here, where you drive through the fog and your windscreen gets lots of ice on the outside cause it is sooooo cold. Amazing stuff really, makes me realise how temperate the climate is in Melbourne!

I finally have a Job

Yay! I finally have a job at the hospital in Carmarthen, I start on the 5th of December.
I have 2 days of orientation training and then 3 days of Occupational Health training and I get paid for those so I will have some money for Christmas shopping! Yay!