So the ice stopped play today! Peter was telling me off last night for being organised, although I am a little OCD when it comes to it, but I needn't have bothered as all my plans went out of the window this morning!!!
I got up as normal at 6.30am and mucked our six out before heading off down the hill, toast in transit, to my first job of the day......got through Nateby and then the freezing rain began and it was freezing in drops on the windscreen as I drove. I turned onto the single track road that has dykes on both sides and had a little slide in the car so continued at 10mph until I got to the yard. I then had to grit the yard to get the horses to the field before mucking out and sorting everything out.
I headed off round the corner to job number two but the car skidded twice as I parked up and I was virtually unable to stand up as the road was sheer ice! I dropped some Formula 4 Feet off and had a quick cup of tea before making my way home. I have to admit I was a bit nervous and went REALLY slowly but the car was sliding all over the place and I just wanted to cry and let Peter save me! However I pulled myself together and stopped being a girl but just as I got to the end of the first road and thought the worst was over with I came across a coach in the dyke!! The road was closed so I couldn't get home and there was another coach and five cars in the dyke further up too!! The police and the ambulance were already there so I decided to leave the car and walk, with the boyz, to the other side of the crash and hopefully then get Peter to pick me up. Either that or sit in the car for hours freezing my t***s off!!! NO thankyou.
Walking up the road....was easier said than done.....and a few times I nearly ended up on my bum but eventually we made it past the scene of the accident to the other side where there was another road block. As luck would have it one of my old liveries was there in the car being turned round by the police so she very kindly gave me a lift the rest of the way to Peter's garage. The boyz then had a right old treat much to Peter's horror as they had to get in his car so he could bring me home!!!! The first and last time I would think!!!!!!!!!
So we have been to pick my car up this afternoon and snook past the road closed signs only to get stuck while Fylde Motor Company dragged both coaches out of the dykes but eventually I got home and sorted!!! Blimey......all those good plans just gone to waste!
Anyway the boyz had a good walk and they are now thawing out infront of the fire............and I am going to make Peter a 'homemade surprise' for tea!!! That is not a euphemism!!!!!
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