A True Story (Probably)

Happy New Year to you all.  This global warming malarkey is wonderful isn't it.............

Let me tell you a story.  Steve and Jennifer Bobton-Smythe have been extremely inconvenienced by the current poor weather.  Neither come from upper class stock, the double barreled name comes from them adding their surnames together when they married.  He's an accountant and she's a Travelling Persons Diversity Benefits and Culture Co-Ordinator. 

They looked all the spring and summer months last year for a perfect home and finally found one in a small hamlet 30 miles from Aberdeen.  What a wonderful, rustic, rural community to live in. 

The first frosts of October worried Jennifer, so Steve bought a big ugly 4x4 for them.  They drove in and out of town at 80 miles per hour on a daily basis, tailgating other road users and lording it over the oiks in their lesser vehicles.

But oh dear.  The rural idyll has gone the way of the pear.  The worst winter in 50 years is upon us.  And now Steve is driving into town at 20 miles per hour with a queue a mile long behind him of people he normally tailgates and abuses.  Steve cannot handle his 4x4.  Or Snow.  Or Ice. 

The moral of the story - don't buy a house in rural Aberdeenshire if you can't drive in poor weather and adverse road conditions. 

I thank you in advance for your co-operation in this matter...............

First music recommendation of the year from Glasvegas "Daddy's Gone".  More than a nod to the Motown bands of the 60's and all the better for it.