Feeling a bit like Batman

[st_martin_a]

I went for a walk tonight out in the snow. I put my Sutton Pastors tabbard/jacket in my pocket in case I might use it if I saw anyone who needed help and as I was walking down the main hill into town there were loads of cars struggling up the hill. So I put the tabbard on and started helping to push the cars. Quite a few members of the public joined in and we did it for about an hour until the traffic had died down.
Definitely one of the best ways to experience time in the snow.

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[october_rain]

Yeah...that sounded like tons of fun. lol

[asakiyume]

Nighttime snow--so magical! And this is good work you do, checking if people need help.

Have you seen the little video (43 seconds) of the deer walking down a snowy street in Scotland? My husband saw it on Twitter--very sweet, and it gives a sense of now-we-are-in-the-apocalypse-and-the-wild-animals-walk-among-us. Or maybe, for a more positive take, it's the-animals-sense-our-snowstorm-distress-and-have-come-to-calm-us.

(I shouldn't say "us" since I'm not in the UK--I'm in the northeastern Unites States--but for the sake of solidarity :-)

[st_martin_a]

That video is cool. (The deer)

North-eastern USA - I worked in Maine for a few months, a long time ago. Is tat anywhere near you?

[asakiyume]

I'm in Massachusetts, but in from the coast about 100 miles (Boston being on the coast). Maine's nearest point is about 120–150 miles northeast of where I am. I've been there a couple of times, when my husband was running a marathon there, and we passed through there last year on our way to Nova Scotia, Canada.

Where are you in the UK? My husband grew up in Dorset, and we live there together as a family for a brief while.

[st_martin_a]

Wow.
It's funny but Dorset is about 150 miles south of where I am, near Birmingham.
: )

[asakiyume]

Birmingham! My sister-in-law lived there for a while.

[st_martin_a]

I was going to say "es un mundo pequeno" but I don't think they use that expression in the Spanish speaking world.
It is a small world though.
: )

[asakiyume]

My more-proficient foreign language is Japanese, and in Japanese they say "Sekai ga hirokute semai," meaning "The world is wide, yet cramped"--though I don't think the Japanese phrase has the negative overtone that my English rendering of it has. Maybe "The world is wide, yet narrow" would be better.

Whatever the idiom--yes, it is!

[st_martin_a]

Muy interesante.
I think in Spanish they say - the world is a big handkerchief. (No lie!) Lol