Let it snow and let’s go home

Snow days are for children when school is cancelled. Snow is not an excuse for the layabouts in this town to ring up work and claim ‘I can’t make it in’.

In my experience those who want to work will work, and those who don’t will stick the telly on and set up camp.

No one has an excuse for being unprepared for this weekend’s flurry. For once the forecasters got it right. I suppose with the law of averages it had to happen eventually.

Panic buying was going on in both Tesco’s and the Co-op on Saturday. I had the misfortune of visiting both stores.

But for once the snow men in Gainsborough appeared to be more idle than the council workers.

This one, pictured here (right) was snapped near the Friendship Inn at Laughterton. It seems even the Gainbsorough snowmen can’t be bothered to stand up anymore.

But I am pleased to report high praise for Gainsborough’s snow clearers. They’ve clearly learned their lesson from last year as countless workers were out clearing our market place on Monday.

A tractor with a snow plough even turned up at one point.

Thanks to the council’s tenacity some stall holders and a few hardy pensioners were even able to frequent the market on Tuesday.

They must be keen.

Reports from residents about the county council’s ability to clear the roads in this area were sadly not as favourable.

Motorists inform me that the main road from Gainsborough to Scunthorpe was not gritted on Saturday night despite clear warnings on the forecast about the weather.

As temperatures look likely to plummet further this week let’s hope the gritters are sent out in force.

It is bad enough trying to negotiate side streets around town without having to live in fear of the ice on the main roads too.

The pavements around the Old Hall were particularly bad.

With any luck by the time you read this we’ll all be free of the wretched stuff.

Although I will be sad to say goodbye to the rather curvaceous snowlady along the straight at Scotter Common.

I think she may have been modelled on Rita Hayworth.

The best thing about the snow melting will be being able to read about real news again.

If London gets anything more than a centimetre suddenly the weather is national news. And you never see any of those BBC reporters standing in the snow in Lincolnshire reporting, in fact I don’t think they even make it north of Luton.