Snowed in town

We're snowed into town. Traffic can't get up the hill into the town, but pedestrians can. And since all the schools are closed, but being local, the children and their parents all live near their school, people are out together enjoying the snow, like the family that walked in from Turnfurlong bringing their daughters on a sled. Fun!

Shop workers have got in, but don't have enough to do, so to entice people to talk, those in and near Market Square are building snowmen, enough to have a competition. There's a snowman with a bowling ball near Jardines ten pin bowling alley, a snowman with a ribbon from C&G and a ticket to travel from Adams, a snowman with a mobile phone outside the phone shop, and, my favourite, a snowman with a top hat outside Suits You, which was so good that he had the local paparazzi photoing.

Broken pane

Yesterday evening some yob chucked something at our window and cracked the pane. Pest!

This is the penalty for living near the town centre. But being a conservation area, we can't have shutters - bit daft really when you realise that this sort of problem has happened on and off for centuries because this was the main road into Aylesbury, and out of Aylesbury after going to the pubs! If you remove the outer rendering of a lot of the houses you find the fixings for the old shutters. But you have to argue the case with the conservation officers. House down the road had lots of panes broken last summer for several Fridays in a run. Broken on Fridays, fixed on Mondays then broken again. And kids think they're just being a nuisance and having a bit of fun, but don't realise that the old sort of glass in these houses is irreplaceable. They don't make glass like that any more.