D. took this picture while walking up the hill to Glasgow University, just before noon. The ground is still covered in an icy slush. Welcome to Glasgow’s Winter.
D.’s first encounter with the ice went something like this: he walked out of our flat, looked at the stairs, and thought to himself, “Oh, somebody’s salted the steps. How nice.” He then proceeded to step right where he thought it’d be the best, which was right on “the salt.” It was not salt. It was ice. T. watched his head disappear, and saw his feet fly up, and got to the door by the time he landed on his back. He’s fine – a bit bruised and scraped – but he now knows that we’re not in California any more.
In his defense, he has only ever seen it snow twice before in his entire life, so all of this cold stuff is a bit new to him.
– D & T
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Neurofen ought to help that!
Theoretically, winter begins on December twenty-second…
Yikes! At least he actually thought it was salt…I know better and still fall flat a good percentage of the time!
: )
My mother got me some wonderful things called YakTrax that slip on your boots and have these nifty coils on the bottom. I love them as they give me great confidence and I can just walk as normal.
http://www.sportsimportsltd.com/yaktracdev.html
We had our first school cancellation due to freezing rain yesterday. Welcome to another Canadian winter!
LOL! Poor D and the ice. I hope he’s recovered from his fall.
Glad the concert went well. I think I would have been staring at the trumpeters, too. LOL! You know, they say that trumpeters have great embrochure (is that the correct spelling? sorry if it isn’t.) 😉
Too funny about the director and his too small shirt.
Yes, May will get her before you know it. 😉
Paz
P.S. Oh, about your question on my blog: The flowers were from the delivery guy. Nothing to it. Just a nice person doing a nice thing that day. 😉
P.P.S. Love the photos as usual.
Wow, talk about crisp lighting! I’m sure the slip pulled a few chuckles from some locals at least. Better luck next ice! (er..tomorrow…)
Great photo.
Thanks for sharing.
Also,the piece on the concert is really interestin.
Wind instrument players are such entertaining people.
Good to know that D is none the worse for wear after his fall.
I nearly took a tumble on my front steps for the same reason. Hooray for winter! (Although, as you pointed out, it’s technically still fall.)
Please tell D that I did this so many times I started getting really nervous about going out. Our back stairs in Scotland were particularly lethal and I started keeping a sack of grit and salt near the door. Snow is pretty, but ice is nasty, treacherous stuff.