19 Hours to Get Home from Work

I had to abandon my car in the snow on the way home yesterday! First time in twenty years I've ever had to get out of my car and walk because I couldn't get it up a snow-bound hill. I set off into a hailstorm in my work trousers and trainers, and nothing passed me either way for an hour. The police called me a couple of times to make sure I was OK!

I eventually got to Torver, as a 4x4 driver turned his vehicle round to give me a lift, then a similar trek to Coniston, where I learned the rest of the road to Ambleside was closed, so I had to stay over the night in a hotel! In the morning, it was still snowing, so I set off again, and eventually got a lift to Ambleside. I purchased a new pair of walking boots, and set off up Dunmail Raise, the road that goes up my Helvellyn (a mountain) which was closed. At the top I almost got run off the road by a gritting lorry, as it was zero-visibility!

From the other side, I found a couple returning from a car-park in which they'd been stuck for twenty minutes turning their car away from the snow, and they gave me a lift back to Keswick, where I arrived at noon, 19 hours after setting off the day before!

Urk! Now I've got to work out how to get my car back (if it's not been towed by a tractor off the road or smashed to one side by any cars sliding down that particular hill). Time to get a Landrover.