I lead the panic buying! & what else? the snow

Sitting here Friday morn with 3 or 4" (10cm in euro's) of snow outside at 06:30 I'm feeling pretty smug at having been shopping yesterday at 0800.  Not panic buying you understand! (ahem tongue in cheek) although it did have a tinge of that about it.

With nothing planned yesterday except to attack my book project Sally decided that even though we could possibly get to the shop today, our normal shopping day, even if a foot of snow fell using Boris her faithful Land Rover Defender.  It made sense to pop down and buy "the essentials" before the forecasted snow fell.
The story has been on the news for days now that we were going to get "dumped" on and "hail the chief!" if this time the weathermen were'nt spot on! 
I noticed just a hint of a snowflake, so small it could have been mistaken for frost floating in the air about 0830 yesterday and gradually, ever so slowly through the day the flakes grew larger and larger until by 1645 it had begun to snow properly which it seemed to do all night.

Back to the shopping though! i arrived at the shop (Sainsbugs Matlock) just after it opened at 0800 and there were a few people around with only one dashing around like a loony, "panic buyer!".  I see this man when I'm at work there, hes quite distinctive having a full head of frizzy hair in the style of the professor from the "back to the future films! Always wears track shoes and lycra trousers and has, - -  "the list".  This is an A4 sized paper obviously printed from a spreadsheet which has a huge number of items on it in various named sections and the stuff he needs has the boxes ticked. 

Hes either American or Canadian, yeah sorry you lot, "we" still cant tell the difference in the accents, sometimes!  He'll approach me at 40 mph and fire of a question without a pre-amble for a product before expecting me to pick up speed to show him where it is, however i digress. 

So having shopped, rather than indulging in "panic buying" you understand! I escaped after only having to dash back into the shop to pick up my pack of loo rolls that i left at the self check out, I know, the size of the pack makes it hard to miss putting them in the trolley but there we are!

Reading the news this morning Sainsbury's Ripley, just down the road not far away had a flock of "Panic buyers! yesterday, clearing every loaf off the shelves amongst other things.  One shopper was seen leaving with 20 loaves of bread!  What!!!!!!.  pic at bottom of this story showing empty shelves

Safely ensconced back at the cottage i noticed that Sainsbury our younger cat has now learned how to
remove the plinth on the bottom of the kitchen units. Here he is in this pic about to scrawl under the units having removed the plinth, a little blurred I'm afraid as the flash was switched off

 He's doing this because now and again he will bring in a mouse and if its still alive, once he lets it go it will dash under the kitchen units.  I set a humane trap under there to catch them before releasing them back to the garden, probably to continue the game for Sainsbury!
Only an hour ago this morning I released one by the shed so it could escape the snow! I'm now putting a walking boot at either end to stop him pulling off the plinth but hes already figured out that he can move the boots!

Later on both cats adopted their usual winter time positions as you can see in this pic

 

 

Later still, Sally caught this shot of 2 old guys "watching TV"

 

Tom will sit like this for hours as long as you don't move about too much, - - not much danger of that in this pose!

 

Right then the dawn is breaking so its boots on and i will go and get some snowy pics from near the River after shifting a bit of snow, I'll put a link on this blog later for the pics

 

Enjoy the day - - - (Snow)



link to snow pics