And it snowed...

And snowed, and snowed. It snowed so much last night that this morning we have a good 8 inches covering everywhere and so there is little chance that Phil will be going to work today. He did try in fairness, and at 6AM this morning was walking down to the main road to see if it might be passible, but seeing sense we decided that it would better if he just didn't try and sat it out for the day. Luckily, working in IT gives you a degree of liberalism as to where you work so it wasn't too much of a trauma. The only downside is that he will at some point have to put an additional trip down to London as that is suppose to be where he was today.

When I get downstairs I let Rupert out as usual and with some speculation he wandered out into the snow which is pretty much as high as his legs are making it a bit difficult for him to manouvor around, but sure enough after a few strides he turned it a gazelle and was leaping around throughly enjoying himself chasing snow balls and generally getting into mischeif. So much so in fact he was very difficult to get in and spent a great deal of time sitting in the middle of the garden staring at wonderment at the winter scene around him.

I also went out to have a look around and took a few pictures of the landscape, see above. There is something about snow that just reels back the childhood memories when winters like the one we're currently experiencing seemed common place rather than an apocolyptic even that the rest of the country is struggling to get to grips with.

Phil and I spent the rest of the day working and I make a start on a greek holiday studio website that's been sitting on my to-do list for far too long. We have a brief break for lunch and enjoy some nice warm soup and then get back to it and at around 5 I nip next door to see how our neighbour got on in the snow today since she'd ventured out to open up her shop in town. All is ok on that front, but Chris, the chap that has been helping Phil with his model plane had a bit of a minor injury in that he managed to forget the propeller on the plan was on full revs and accidentally stuck his finger in the way of the blade. Blood ensued, not pretty. I dutifully nipped back home and got some steri-strips, I just hope they're enough to fix it!

Red Thai Curry for tea tonight, thanks to those lovely folks at the Blue Elephant who have helpfully produced a ready made paste to do such a dish with ease. It was quite fiery but I think I saved it at last moment by putting a blob of creme fraiche in to cool it down otherwise it'd have been far to hot for me to eat! I also made an eves pudding (yet to be devoured, will do after I've finished typing this).

I suspect I'll have Phil for company tomorrow since the temperatures this evening are set to plummet, turning the snow to compacted ice. Nice.

Posted by Abi on the January 6, 2010 8:17 PM