Illustration Friday - Snow

I'm from Dundee in Scotland and when I was growing up we had a lot of snow over the winter.  My high school sat at the top of a very steep hill, which meant it closed quite often when snow fell heavily.

I remember one stormy morning, I was sat huddled around the radio, praying that the local news would list my school as one of the schools which had shut due to the bad weather, particularly as I had band practice that day..  and the thought of lugging my euphonium through the snow was not very appealing, as a euphonium is quite a weighty bit of brass - one size category down from a tuba!

But my school wasn't on the list, so off I went.  It was only a mile's walk (of course there were no buses running!) but it felt like a desperate polar expedition, with only me to carry all the heavy supplies.

As the school came into view I saw cars trying to ascend the treacherous slope, but failing and sliding back down into a skidding whirlpooling mass of vehicles.  Needless to say, school was off, and I had no choice but to turn and trudge all the way back..!

It was this memory that inspired my Illustration Friday submission this week.  To this day I don't know why I didn't just leave the euphonium at home.