Good to see loads of bees round the open crocus's/crocii. This is only the third day this season that they have been fully out (sunshine) and they are starting to go over [sad] still, nice to see them

Blizzards and sunshine alternating. The wind has ensured that the snow hasn't settled. I was driving up the road to a friend's house and I saw a white wall of snow coming towards me - it was most dramatic!

There are 47000 households without electricity in Basse Normandie. Still OK here, fingers crossed!

Now completely snowed in.... Still got the electricity though. Suspect it will be Thursday before we can get out.

Put your feet up Mamie and just enjoy it
(Hope you've got enough logs?)

Will have when I have hauled them up! Still several cubic metres in the log store, though. Will have to do my rounds of the elderly neighbours later as that is one of my duties as a local councillor. Hope nobody needs nothing urgent, because the only way would be to get a farmer with a tractor!

Nobody needs nothing?? Snow on the brain.

Let's hope everybody is ok. So you are a local Councillor too - I wish I could lend you my cross country skis to do your rounds. Stay safe, stay warm.
And not a snowflake here in the Jura mountains (yet). We are so used to snow here, but we are all well equipped with snow tyres, snow blowers and heating systems that can withstand the coldest cold (local record -42.8C). Bonne chance.

We have tiny country roads, but we do have a snow-blade for the farmers' tractors that we bought as a council a few years ago. I am sure they will be round later. I think all the main roads are closed too, all school transport cancelled by the prefecture (no messing around with local management of schools here!). Apparently the ferries from Ouistreham are cancelled too.
Everyone will have stocks of wood, food, milk on the hoof and calva.

Here we have absinthe instead- our local Green Fairy speciality, born and bred here long before it was adopted in Marseilles or Honfleur

When it snows here, the snowploughs are out all night ..