Snow, ice and Christmas shopping

On Friday I went to pick up Eden because most of the snow had gone frome here but there was still a covering where she lives. After we got home in the evening, it rained quite steadily for an hour or so but the forecast was for freezing temperatures overnight. We had planned to got to Tesco early on Saturday but I told her I wouldn't do that if it was icy because I made that mistake last winter and found Tesco's car park was like a giant ice skating rink as they don't salt or grit it.
When the alarm went on Saturday morning I looked out to see that there was ice sparkling on the road just as if someone had sprinkled glitter liberally over it so I set the alarm for an hour later and climbed back into my warm bed again. When we got up we decided to got to the paper shop to get the paper and after breakfast we could go to do Eden's Christmas shopping because hopefully it would be better underfoot by then. We slithered and slid to the paper shop and back, fortunately we both managed to stay upright, then we had breakfast.
By the time we went out most of the ice had gone and it didn't take us very long to buy small gifts for her friends especially as I had made her write a list beforehand. Luckily the shops were fairly quiet as I suppose the icy conditions had kept people away until later. We got home in record time and decided to dash to Tesco before lunch. It had just started raining but at least it wasn't freezing as it hit the ground so the car park at Tesco, although almost full, wasn't frozen as it must have been earlier. Tesco was packed but we got the shopping done so that meant that we wouldn't have to go on Sunday as I hate Sunday shopping unless it's an emergency.
Eden wrapped all her presents after lunch and wrote out her cards. When we woke up yesterday morning to freezing fog outside we were glad we had decided to do the grocery shopping on Saturday and enjoyed a leisurely morning in the warm.