Snow

Skidding on snow could twist your knee and damage it.

Ah, but it is gloriously grey in Mordor!

It has been cold today, but I checked the weather and went to work on bike. I got some new shoes at Moose's and they are warmer than the previous ones, but still not perfect.
All the snow was gone by early afternoon and it has been raining on the way home.

Whoa! Was that a record? I thought we were doing well with our 5C.

Wow, that is warm for this time of the year.
We still have a lot of snow and I prefer cycling to walking at the moment.

Is swimming trunks?

It snowed all night and day here and we got a lot of snow. Already slippery too. And bloody cold! Wish I had the 20 degree winter. *sighs*

They very often come round with the gritting lorries when I am out with Honey, which often means I have to shield her from the spray, which goes everywhere, at around her eye-line!

I do not know why they bother as the grit has usually been dissipated by the cars long before any snow or ice appears! They also seem to forget that if you put salt down and it gets wet, any resulting ice will be far more dangerous!

No, but we did turn the heat off in the front room of the house. Left the back heat on very low.

I think that in this country you enter someone's property pretty much at your own risk, unless injury was caused by something unreasonable.

There is also another set of circumstances that apply. If, for example, leaves fall from a tree and someone slips on them, then no-one is to blame. If someone else moves the leaves into a pile, however, they have potentially caused the fall.

What is the case if you put a sign on your gate, saying "enter at own risk" (in German, of course ).

Is your culture litigious, as in the US? I think we tend to have a more measured approach to things over here.

That sounds a bit messed up, to me, about gritting outside your house. What if there's a sudden freeze overnight and you didn't even have an opportunity to do anything about it? I think I'd put a lock on the gate and a mail box and bell nearby!

A few years ago, councils were recommending that shopkeepers did not clear the snow away from their shop fronts. If someone slips on snow that has not been cleared away then no one is at fault. If someone slips on a footpath where the snow has been partly cleared away leaving an icy footpath then it is the fault of the person who didn't do a very good job. Something like that.

That is mad! I refer you to my previous locked gate solution!

Apparently it snowed here at seven this morning but I was not conscious