[WillowTheWhisp]

It's snowing. It has been snowing all morning. In places the snow is qute deep. Willows Lane is passable but a bit iffy. Cars are parked either side so there is (as always) only enough room for one car to get through at a time. We have just returned home (early due to weather conditions) from church having been given a lift by the Bishop.

Coming up Willows Lane all was fine until we almost reached home and then someone coming down decided he was going to keep coming down in spite of the fact that there was a space at the side for him to pull into to allow us to get through. We were coming uphill and he was coming down but he kept on coming!

Bishop wound down his window. The other (taxi) driver wound down his window and proceeded to criticise us for coming up the road when he was trying to come down. "The Highway code does not apply in bad weather." said he. "Common sense applies and you should have stopped for me."

Common sense takes precedence over the Highway Code? That's a new one on me, but quite apart from that I would have thought it was common sense for a car coming uphill in snow to keep going because a car coming down can always get going again if it has to stop but it's not as easy to start uphill in loose snow that is giving way beneath the wheels.

Opinions and comments anyone?