Be careful out there on your way home. Some of the footpaths in Forest Hill are quite slippery. I can only imagine what they’ll once it starts to freeze!
You folks that get out of the office before 7pm! So jealous! 
some of us get into the office at 07.30 
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A reminder to clear the footpaths around your property if you can - but only if you can salt the surface after your cleared the snow. Otherwise you are just creating black ice! Hopefully the gritters will cast their spread wide enough tonight to include the footpaths.
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Is it a long walk home from St. David’s?
If only! I miss the days when I could work from their basement.
I’m currently in the square mile, which is such a heat bubble nearly all the snow melted 
Must say the ride home was a bit bum twitching too. But the pavements didn’t look good, that’s for sure.
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Pavements are patchy throughout.
Where the sunshine has reached pavements, they are virtually dry - whereas on others, snow has been compressed and is already hard ice.
My patch - sorted - and salted.
PS: Gritters - what gritters ?
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The footpaths along Dartmouth road are a nightmare - with everyone being funneled round the road works, the snow has already been trampled down into a solid coating of ice
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The shipman road mugging bypass was a laugh, avoid if possible. At least the ice might keep the muggings to a minimum!
Taymount rise is tretcherous! As was London Road.
Why aren’t the council gritting?
We’ve been warned of this for days.
I think they are gritting, but as we have discovered before different roads have different priorities. And with ever smaller budgets etc, I get the impression less and less roads make the grade. Even ones with gradients like that.
I could be wrong of course but there has definitely been quite a bit of gritting done throughout Lewisham
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This is when I miss living in Germany. Everyone responsible for their bit of footpath outside house and it was taken v seriously as well. Remember mother telling me to get out to clear path asap as neighbours had done it twice and us only once.
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This is something @RachaelDunlop mentioned in another thread recently. Very worthy thing to do, and would always do this if required. Sadly lots of the newer folk around here don’t seem to want anything to do with neighbours.
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This seems a bit uncalled-for and off-topic, and I am going to call you out for it - I’ve seen no correlation between length of tenure and friendliness / neighbourliness in my 18 years in the hood. Are you maybe thinking of some specific neighbours who aren’t very neighbourly?
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Was just a general observation based on my experience and interactions with people locally, and in response to Sgc commenting on missing living in a place where this was the done thing.
Sorry if it offends, but it is my perspective of how things have changed in my local community.
PS been here 37 years if that is relevant.
Anyway, like you say, back on topic eh
Nice dump of snow over night and the roads and pavements look deadly.
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A, frankly surprising, and rather welcome sight this morning…
Looks like Network Rail succeeded in managing to keep the tracks from getting too slippery overnight.
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Looks pretty, but can see it being “chaos” as usual.
Swept and salted a second time.
Lowest temp overnight was -9°C and is now at -8.7°C on a rising thermometer.
Is there another belt of snow on its way ?
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