Bloody buggery snow! We've had a sodding foot and more tomorrow, but all forecast to thaw on saturday.
Bloody buggery snow chains that I bought for this winter, £20 from Acme Crap Company, the sods lasted 15 miles before pinging off somewhere en-route - found one, totally shredded! That's 9mm crappy Chinese crap for you! Probably made somewhere in the tropics where they don't even have a word for "snow".
On Amazon.de this morning and splashed out 57 euros for a decent pair of 12mm German ones with good customer reviews, on the premise that the Germans have plenty of snow and probably make decent snow chains. Plus I can speak passable(ish) German, which helps make sure that I don't end up ordering fifteen parasols and a cat basket, or something like that!
The English Amazon has only two snow chains, both of which look cheap and crap and are all sold out, whereas the German Amazon has four pages of the buggers, all readily available.