And this is....?

Not cobbles, for a start. They would be snow covered!

It was a slow blip day - as a result of the wrong kind of very busy day. (Well, it is only a matter of days until Christmas)

Here we have the effects of the natural world on the gutter.
Snow melts and drips through leaky gutter.
As it melts it freezes.

Like I said - slow blip day.
Not sure how it gets to be so wide though...