it snowed, then it melted a bit and then it froze. the result is very icey.
in fact, walking to work this morning was very much like walking across an ice-rink. by which i mean there was a mighty pipe organ playing 70s disco tunes in the cheesiest of ways. possibly.
as if it wasn’t slippy enough, i spotted a few discarded banana skins too:
some people were fighting back. here was a curly wurly (still in its wrapper). a curly wurly is an excellent anti-slipping device thanks to its elaborate design: