Ice On The Windscreen

What a night I had!
By the time I went to bed the temperature had dropped and the ic was forming outside.
I was woken twice by the noise of the ice - once by people walking home and once by a taxi driving in .... and back out of the street.
Then at 3am I woke with the noise from the station rebuild and realised that there power was off in the house.
So I was up and resetting the trip switch (this was the 3rd time in 24 hours). I just got back into bed and it went again.........so it was up again, resetting and standing waiting to make sure it didn't go off again.
It was nearly 4.30am before I got back to sleep again  thanks to Scotrail.

When I set off with PD I noticed the strange ice patterns on the car windscreen. I have never seen them like furrows before.
I didn't use the steps this morning - I could see they were just solid ice. The clear blue sky was responsible for the postcard style trees and the 3" thick, rock hard, ankle breaking "slush".
Actually, I didn't break an ankle - but I did do arse over tit at one point. I had tried  to avoid the sheet ice on the slope up one of the paths by walking up the flow of running water ..... which happened to be running over a sheet of thick ice! I have never come across that before either.

It must have been one hell of a fast - and sharp - drop in temperature to freeze the 'pond' that is the flooding. There was a bit of a clue about that  by the way the drips from the trees had frozen as they hit the water. This was it today ........ This was it yesterday
I just hope there was nobody sleeping under the blanket.

By this afternoon the temperature was up to 9C (out of the breeze) and virtually all the snow was gone.
Squirrel had an extra gymnastics class to make up for once cancelled during the last bout of snow and the chef at the cook school was quite happy to serve us drinks and cake despite the cafe officially being closed - Score!
Now, if only the workmen take the night off at the station ..........