Weather

Have not seen snow like that since I was a little girl - we've had about 4 feet int he last few days, and another 3 feet overnight. That snowblower is really coming handy!!! Our garden has disappeared and blends into the fields beyond, now snow has reached the top of the fence! Wow.

I have since heard that DD's flight was the airline's fault, plane stuck in another country and unable to fly to Geneva. DD flew with Brussels airline at 06.50 this morning and got back to spend some time at home before flying back to Geneva for the next working week.

I hope Geneva clears before next Saturday when I am due to fly to Manchester!
Only -5C here but my car is completely snowed in so I will have to spend a couple of hours freeing it as I have to leave on Wednesday to spend a couple of days with Granjura.

Just heard from DD, she is trapped by snow in Geneva and there was me just bragging that she has never been inconvenienced.

Loads and loads of snow. -13 last night when I went to bed

Dot of orange on the beech tree at the bottom of the garden. It's the robins favourite perch!

Now clear and the sun has come out!

Cold, bright and very still here - so far.

Cold and bright

It's rainy, it's cold but i think it's brightening a little...that's good because I said I would take my neighbour to the library soon.

Been raining here all day but the frozen snow is still clinging on in the garden. A thoroughly miserable day brightened by a visit to DD's house to babysit two of the DGC's tonight. This is them

I'm sure the tabloids tell us something like this every year. Should we believe it this time?

Bags "but he has come across me before". Love it!

And can imagine it.

Temp at the back door is still zero.

Not snowing here at work. Sun shining but cold. It is snowing 10 minutes up the road at home and one of our engineers has had to turn back from Scarborough.

Snowed here and sunny now - the perfect combination. FlicketyB's post about the temperature at their Normandy house reminds me of when I donated our old (too small) fridge to my neighbours who were just refurbing a fairly derelict gite they had bought in the Limousin. When they got there they texted me to say that "le frigo" was working well and its internal temperature was probably higher than that in their kitchen. 10 years later it is still working, although relegated to an outhouse, which is more than I can say of its bigger and more expensive replacement

It is snowing here, big fluttery flakes. I think I will do some work in the house today rather that go shopping.

Bright morning, black frost. Will have to de-ice the car.

It has snowed here too, but it's melting. Sunny and chill.

Very glad we draught-proofed the passage at the side of the house yesterday. That keeps the kitchen warmer too. But today - because there was a warning of a very hard frost tonight - I need to think what plants to bring out of the cold greenhouse to the warmer passage......

It's snowing in sunny Surrey!

Another Cheshire gran, purplehairstreak. There are quite a lot of NW G'netters and we had a great meet-up in November - another one planned for the 19th when Greatnan will be over from France. Are you interested?

Sunny, chilly, damp - but then this is Cheshire. Thermals on? I've been wearing my silk vesty-top things since the end of September! And the very stylist wrist warmers daughter bought for me when we were in Iceland in August have been on too!

When I was chair of governors of a primary school, we had a new school built and the architects asked for input from parents, staff, governors and children. We thought the result was fantastic.

Reminds me of the Head Mistress friend of my mother telling her that when her big inner city school was being rebuilt in the 1970s. When she was - eventually - shown the plans, the first thing she noticed was the complete lack of cloakrooms. With work already started the school had to be redesigned to include them. The architects and LA education department had completely failed to notice that they missing from the plans

deal with!