Ever since Thanksgiving, it has been snowing, and we've now accumulated about 10 inches. It's very early for snow here in York where, during a bad winter, they expect less than a month of snowy weather. So people were a bit glum about it when it started. But now there has been so much of it that people are getting quite excited. Every store in Yorkshire has sold out of sledges and Wellington boots, and all day long the youth are climbing up and sliding down the embankments below the walls.
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| The Ouse from Ousebridge on our walk home |
Bus services were curtailed and trains across the county cancelled today as of noon. The public library (where we spent the morning working) shut down, the Minster was empty, the streets devoid of the usual crowds of shoppers and tourists. A good day for a browse in a bookshop, a walk home along the river, and a hot apple crisp for dinner dessert.
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