It’s the story of 84-year-old Mary Grams who found the diamond engagement ring that she lost in 2004 ... wrapped around a rather gnarly carrot.

The ring was lost, Grams thinks, when she was dealing with a "giant weed" in the garden of her farm in Alberta, Canada. It turned up again 13 years later when Gram's daughter-in-law, Colleen Daley, found it around a carrot she pulled out of the garden.

"I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law," Daley told 660 News, "because no other women have lived on that farm.

“I asked my husband if he recognised the ring. And he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot."

And apparently, Grams never told her husband she lost the ring, replacing it herself, and he was none the wiser!

"I thought for sure he'd give me heck or something," she said.

A FRIEND of Parade was making her way home from Sydney on Friday evening when she and many others driving along the Great Western Highway came across the snow at Yetholme.

Even as an experienced driver it was pretty tricky navigating the road surface. It was pretty slippery, and for 99 per cent of the drivers on the road at the time, common sense prevailed, and they slowed down and took it easy.

Except for one driver, who was a P-Plater, who felt the need to overtake everyone, accelerating harshly and driving at what Parade would deem a fairly inappropriate speed for the conditions.

Parade felt what must be a common frustration for police. When conditions are treacherous, drivers are told to slow down, which gives them more time to stop if something goes wrong, more braking room and generally more room for error.

It’s advice police give us all the time. What a shame for some the advice never sinks in.