Unexpected IPYPIASM Opportunity!

I left the house at 9.15 this morning for a work meeting in Glasgow; upon reaching the Dalveen Pass a catastrophic freezing event (think The Day After Tomorrow) occurred, and I found myself driving through a blizzard on sheet ice. After a fairly significant slide of all four wheels around a corner with an Alpine drop, I decided it might not be best to continue.

But of course you have to continue, as turning around would mean going downhill - significantly more dangerous than going uphill in such weather conditions. So I 10mph-ed to the motorway, then went down it to Dumfries in order to get back home again (just a forty mile diversion).

As my body had reached starvation levels on the journey (Dennis Quaid took food, as I recall) I stopped in Dumfries for a quick calorific top-up, and then thought, 'Well, I'm here, so I may as well...' So I did. On-the-hoof, and phone pictures as I obviously had not packed the camera.

Ladies, what do you buy
For the man who has everything?
Ladies, what do you buy
For the man who has you?

Back in Black

In the reign of Victoria
it was required
wearing out, two whole years
after the death of one dear,
or close, or else related.
Why choose it now?
You could be ruby, sapphire,
emerald,
yet plump again
for unpressured coal.


And in case anyone is still wondering what the hell is going on, go to Niamh's, here:
http://variouscushions.blogspot.com/2010/11/ipypiasm.html