Yes, my fellow bipeds...it is officially weather for dogs and cats and folk that don't mind crawling out of their front door to get to the car

abandoned half way up the hill! Grit bins everywhere are empty and ASDA has even sold out of table salt! 

On a positive note, my anti skid program on the car has been in use......ESP! ESP! ESP! flashed the dashboard on the way into the Glendale......

EEP! EEP! EEP! flashed my subconscious and ne'r the twa came anywhere near my ability to react....I just thought I was a really great driver!

Celebrity Driving on Ice, coming to a BBC1 near you....first contestant, Daniella Westbrook (a prize for the person who got that!)

Now back to the Great Grit Bin Saga....armed with the Community Council Salt Bin location info I went forth into the icy wilderness in search of the 

yellow treasure chests, only to find the first one empty, the next one empty and given the lack of grit on the path of the houses next door

to the bins....the rest of them empty!

None in my estate, try the one next to me...none! Try the Glendale....None!  Try East Dunbartonshire (shh!)...None!!  All the bins were 

empty, picked so clean one wonders whether they had any salt in them to begin with.  I thought seriously about that patch of road in my 

area that had been gritted heavily...maybe I could just scrape some of the excess off? The thought of flaming torches and pitchforks was quick

to settle that one back where it belonged!  So I went to Homebase to buy the posh clean driveway salt....None!   B&Q....sorry, none left!

This morning I went to Gartcraig depot for some.....the bins were empty and a queue was forming...luckily for me I was first in it!  No grit in the bins

but plenty on the ground that had spilled over when they were last filled!  Pride aside I scraped up the leavings and am now watching the dirty

Cooncil salt melt away the pack ice that had been threatening to keep me inside till the great thaw...now I can get shot of the migrating

herd of wildebeest in my back garden, walk upright to my car and get to my work....D'oh!

Spare a thought for me folks.....I can get out, but getting back in is not so easy...my wife has a mop welded to her hands and a bucket of soapy water

for any shoes that dare enter festooned with dirty brown Cooncil grit!  Anyone know who sells heated driveways??