Snow turns Royal Eastbourne Golf Course into Winter Sports venue

On the morning of Monday 12 December 2022, the roads up onto the South Downs from my home being inaccessible due to the previous evenings snowfall, I took my dog onto the Royal Eastbourne Golf Course. Being a rescued Moldovan 'street-dog', for him it was a blast from his past. Sussex had been transformed into his wintry homeland. Then, by 9:00am the first 'sledgers' had arrived (photo), and as the day progressed the Course became a Winter Sports venue. By the afternoon it was like a scene from a Pieter Bruegel painting. By then the snow on the main 'runs' had become hard-packed and very fast. Parents with small children used the 15 degree, 10 mph nursey slopes. Adults and older children used the main Paradise slope a 30 degree, 20mph, half-mile run. The madcap older teenagers hurtled down the 45 degree, 30mph, scarp slope af the end of which some took off over a 4 metre drop, landing on the softer snow below. Bruises but hopefully no broken bones. What a day, Aspen comes to Eastbourne.