Tonbridge Today

I took these photos in Tonbridge this morning. The trains were barely running, and Tonbridge Station said that London Bridge was closed. When I turned up at the station at 10h20, I was told that there had been only two trains the whole day. The line towards the Coast was fairly clear, and the two trains had gone there, but virtually nothing going up to London. There was a Replacement Bus service between Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells. Worse, orders have had to be given to gritting lorries to use only half of their mixture because the UK is running out and a delivery is only expected in two weeks. They have to grit the roads to give car tyres purchase on the ice. And there have been so many deaths - people walking home and falling and not found in time and succumbing to hypothermia, people lost in snowdrifts, people not realising they were walking on frozen ponds and falling in as the ice gave way. Pensioners unable to afford heating found dead in their homes. Then of course there are the traffic accidents. The only thing you can say for snow is that it is very pretty to look at and fun to play in.











I'll end this post with a quote from ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being