Yellow
" A fresh amber warning for snow has come into force in the South West, with yellow snow and ice warnings also in place for other parts of the UK into Thursday." I spotted this sentence on the BBC News website this very evening. Good heavens! Yellow snow! You know what that means don't you? Why can't people simply wait to use a lavatory? (French: pissoir) . The snow that fell upon Sheffield last weekend is still around. Although temperatures have occasionally threatened to bump up above zero, there has not been enough warmth to herald a proper thaw. Consequently, on the back roads, our pavements (American: sidewalks) are now treacherous. It is not too bad when you are walking on a flat section but on a hill like our street, it is all too easy to slip and potentially fall. As I said to an old friend I encountered yesterday outside the neighbourhood pharmacy, one fall on an icy pavement can change someone's life forever. Broken hip, cracked ribs, skull f...