Well not quite, but what a great day in snowy Tonbridge yesterday. Hardly any cars on the road, took the kids out of school, which turned out to be a very sensible decision since most of them closed by 1 o'clock anyway, went sledging down Quarry Hill, no not the road like in the pic, the bit near the Cottage Hospital. Fantastic fun, nice gentle slope, getting steadily faster as you build up momentum towards the bottom. There were lots of families there enjoying their totally unexpected day off. Some were kitted out as if at Kitzbuhel on a skiing holiday with the very latest in sledge designs; others made do with jeans and fleeces and home made sleds or plastic tea trays. My kids' two plastic tobbagans, bought for a quid each on a car boot sale a few years back, were christened Blizzard and Polo Xtreme and they went down that hill like a dream. When I had several goes and each time forgot to apply the brakes (my feet in the snow) I ended up having to untangle myself from the brambles by the hedge near the stile. Ouch! but great fun....
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