Seth and Amy arrived from Minneapolis this Thursday, hence the light blogging, for the American Thanksgiving holiday. I took Seth and Amy to Mumbles on Friday where we ate at a cafe and Amy and my mom went shopping while Seth visited a place where I wasn't allowed in the door. I guess I was too young.
On Thursday night to Friday morning Scotland, Wales, and most of England got a number of inches of snow. For those of you who do not know, snow has always been relatively rare in Wales, especially as of late with the changing climate. England and Scotland do get more snow but the British infrastructure is not equipped to handle snow... any snow, especially in Wales where the less-than two inches of snow caused a complete meltdown. Schools were shutdown, people could not get to work, and the papers ran stories on the incompetent government management of the situation.
In the government's defense they are simply not equipped to handle snow. They have limited salt trucks, few ploughs, and people rarely need to drive in snowy conditions so when they do there tends to be a lot of accidents.
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