A line in the sand snow

Saturday night around 10.30 I was loitering feeling sorry for myself on the sofa with a mug of hot chocolate when there was a knock on the door. PG and I looked at each other, no one ever knocks on the door here at night, PG stood up grumbling and answered it.

Our visitor was my friend and neighbour, we will call her 'W' for now. 'W' insisted that I put on a jacket, a pair of shoes and go with her.....destination unknown and never mind the cold or the abandoning of my hot chocolate, this was too important!

It was apparent this was not an emergency, rather something of some amusement to her and though I was completely confounded I duly obeyed my instructions and ventured out into the cold night.

We set off in 'W's car, both of us laughing and with her repeatedly telling me "you are not gonna believe what I have to show you"....my confusion was not relieved by this!

Perhaps half a mile from home everything became clear, 'W' stopped the car (there is no traffic here late at night) and infront of us in the road was a very definite line, like someone had 'coloured it in' in a childs colouring book, one side of the line, black tarmac, the other side of the line....SNOW! There was no gradual fading in, it was a hard line, one side it had snowed the other it hadn't!!

To add to 'W's amusement was the fact that the side on which we live was the snow-less side, despite all my forecast watching and wishing the snow had dared to stop just half a mile from us!!! My passion for snow is well known here.

"Look up" she said to me, above our heads was a hard line in the dark sky, one side white puffy snow clouds, the other side, our side...... a clear sky, bright with twinkling stars!

This place we live in may drive me mad in some respects but it offers some amazing sights now and then!!