The Great Blizzard of January 2013 UPDATED

[UPDATE:] New photos added at the bottom, Wednesday 23rd January, 11:45am.

It seems everybody likes to play in the snow, at least a little bit, and today saw no exception. I went out for a brief jaunt around town and like so many others I had my camera with me. There's a full gallery down below, and a rather interesting video, so do scroll down and check out all the pictures people have sent in!

I walked through the parish church grounds and up picturesque Church Street where I began to see a disproportionately large number of people milling about. Not crowds, but certainly more people than I'd expect to see on a less entertaining day. Looking back down Mill Street revealed the first evidence of wintry delight, so I went down for a closer look.

A rather unfortunate lorry driver fell victim to the compressed snow while attempting to deliver to the social club. Someone's Astra took a bit of a pummelling. Fortunately the small child arrived after the incident.

After a spot of shopping I decided to pop into Divine Wines for a bowl of delicious 'red' soup and some cheese on toast. It seems others had the same idea and soon the sledge-park outside was showing "0 spaces".

Returning to the bottom of town I decided to walk through the recreation ground to see if anyone was up to anything interesting. The decision paid off because an industrial young couple from nearby had taken it upon themselves to erect a most impressive igloo near the shelter! So impressed, was I, it seemed appropriate to make a record of the achievement, so here's a short video.

Apparently they do this every year, and with increasing ambition. I feel a WW team project coming on. If there's more snow tomorrow (or at least no less) I've a mind to head back down there and try to build one I can walk around inside!

Earlier this morning our Editor invited our Facebook followers to send in their own photos, and the following gallery is the result. If you've taken any of your own please send them in to the editor () and I'll add them to this page! A snowman line-up never goes amiss...

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Enjoyable article
Reply #1 on : Thu January 24, 2013, 22:00:58

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Thanks Dave for a really enjoyable article. As the last of the snow disappears it's good to be able to look back. I was also interested to see all the different tools used within the article which includes 'live film', lets hope others will be inspired.

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