Home from France

We travelled to France to see Grandma Margaret and Grandad Roger on Saturday (we thought we best make the most of cheap flights whilst we were still in east London and next to Stansted and Ryan Air.)
We did hear about freak weather conditions coming to England before we flew, but seeing as we had already booked the flights and the weather men and ladies do often get it wrong,we decided to go anyway, so imagine our surprise when we saw all this video footage on the news of snow everywhere.
Then we heard that Stansted had been closed and all short haul flights out of Heathrow were cancelled, so we wondered if we were going to have an extented holiday in France whilst the snow thawed, but no, Ryan Air had their pilots at the ready to fly us home.

Our car however was covered in snow when got back to the car park.

This photograph was taken after we had put the girls into their seats and loaded our luggage into the boot so a lot of snow had already fallen off.
Then as we got onto the M11, i realised the windscreen washer squirter thingies (don't know what they are called) had frozen up, so i ended up with dirty snow being flicked up onto my windscreen from the other cars and lorries and all i could do was smear it all around, it was bad visibility i tell you.
Eventually clean snow flicked up onto the windscreen which helped and then not long after the squirters un-froze, so all was good, and we got home safe and sound.

Iris does now have gunky ears, so we are taking her to the doctors today, poor little mite.