Odd logic

Sure enough Helen rang. She was under several inches of snow. There was no way she could get the car up onto the lane, but the rest of us met up at the restaurant at 6ish.

It's the first time the Fox & I have been to the Honey Tree. It turned out very pleasant indeed. The food was different, even if the meal names were sometimes the same as at Ricky's. Here the style of cooking is that of Hong Kong rather than Canton. So the shredded fillet beef Fran had was soft & tender in a sauce, rather than crispy as you would get at Ricky's. On the whole I think I still prefer Ricky's but it did make a very pleasant alternative.

Conversation inevitably turned to the weather. The snows of 1947 were remembered. I gather then, in Morecambe, the snow was up to the garage roof according to Fran. I remembered my mother saying that she was in Wales then & the snow was up to the first floor windows. Clearly a bad year & before both of our time.

As usual there was much badinage & laughter, but I think we were all relieved to be finished at a fairly early hour. We left about 8ish. It's just as well. By 9pm huge flakes of snow were descending. Our road had remained white all day without this extra layer so we were glad to be safely tucked up inside in the warmth by then.

It seems to have been a milder night than of late with the result that some of the snow seems to have melted. It's certainly no worse than yesterday despite the night-time fall.

We were bemused yesterday to get a call from PD. He knew we weren't going to the Pub yesterday as we were going out for a meal in the evening. He just thought, with all the snow, the meal might have been cancelled & therefore we could take him to the Pub instead. It didn't seem to occur to him that Ricky's, where he thought we were going, was just a few minutes away from the Pub, accessible by busy main roads all the way, unlike the Pub which is up a steep hill on a minor road which is never cleared. If we couldn't get to the one we were hardly likely to get to the other. That's PD for you! We assured him we would try to get to him today, weather permitting.