I've just had a phone call from Soop in snowy Kintyre - they have no power, haven't had for several days and Kintyre is completely cut off by snow.
They have a little single ring camping gas stove and Mr S managed to get to the local store yesterday so they have supplies. The telephone lines are down and there is no mobile signal. They have some type telephone which plugs straight into the line (?) which she called me on.
Soop sounds really well, in good spirits but misses her GNet fix. On the plus side she says her house is spotless!
Rory is doing well and is thoroughly spoiled by the sounds of things 
Anyhoo Soop sends her best wishes to 'you lot' x
BTW, it's Argyll. Sorry to be picky but it is where I live 
DH was listening to Jeremy Vine at lunchtime and an elderly lady came on from Clachan, a village nearby to Soop. The lady's husband had managed to make it to the shop where he was able to buy some provisions....I don't think it was Mr soop, because the lady was listing all of the vegetables that her DH had been able to buy and I can't see soop blethering away like that - not about carrots and turnips etc! Anyway, she'd be more interested in whether he'd been able to lay his hands on some tuna for Rory!
One man down in Carradale, on the other side of the Kintyre peninsula has burned the contents of his garden shed that he didn't need. He's now starting on the shed itself.
number thanks
glass What's "nithering" please, never heard that one before?
Our weather is just cold, grey, bleak, nothing. Bit 
making.
Ella (and sympathy!)
It's lovely here, just a few miles from ella and * anno*. My back garden is enclosed by fences and outhouses, so is actually warm, even though the wind is blowing the trees around 
The thermometer at my back door has climbed to 3 Celsius. Does that mean it's spring?
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