Wednesday, 20 November 2024

A Snow Day

 


The view from Tam's bedroom, through a hastily-wiped window.  The wooden shutters certainly help keep the warm room but do nothing for condensation. This is the view roughly North-West.

This is looking towards the quarry, hidden behind the snow.

This is what it did all day yesterday, but fortunately didn't lie on the track and roads.  I normally love snow, but I was worried about getting my prescription an worried about Tam & Rosie managing to get here safely, although she said by the time she set off after lunch, the A44 through the mountains was fine.


Fresh Bread!


So, I am started on a 3 day course of Selexid, and let's hope this helps whilst I am waiting to receive the infection-appropriate course I should be on.  

Nothing exciting is happening - I just have to rest up and hopefully soon feel better.  

I managed to "rug up" the roses in planters yesterday, using the last of the compost here, so they had a good layer of mulch over their roots.  Tess of the D'Urbervilles has only just recovered to grow a couple more stems after being hit so hard by a very hard frost last year.  

Tam is proposing a walk after breakfast, "before it all melts" so we will do that.  Keep warm.

12 comments:

  1. A very welcome hard frost here but no snow. (We had no frost at all last winter.) We’ll be wrapping up and going out for a local walk as soon as our porridge has gone down - making the most of the hard ground. We have celeriac, carrot and apple soup for lunch and you’re inspiring me to make a loaf of bread. Yours looks so good. Keep warm too - and drinking and resting as much as you can. We stayed home all day yesterday and as well as making soup and apple cake and mushroom risotto for supper I got to the bottom of the ironing basket while listening to Words and Music - broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday evening and all about bears! I’ll be swimming at lunchtime and it’s neurologist phone call at 2pm and already I’m looking forward to lighting the fire and knitting, but for now the sun has come out and the sky is blue. Sarah x

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    1. Fresh bread can't be beaten. I usually try to cook it in the oven, so it has a decent crust on it, and is a better shape to slice - the Panasonic-baked ones are quite tall. I have had the heating on all day since it has snowed and set at 15 overnight so the house doesn't get totally chilled (Rosie sleeps without a cover, just in her little sleeping bag, but her arms are uncovered. The rules have changed since we brought up our babies . . . As for weaning them on big chunks of food - it fair gives me the heebie-jeebies!

      Apple cake on the menu here today - I shall send Tam home with a Chocolate Apple Cake, and make a Spicy Dorset Apple cake for the freezer.

      I hope the call to the Neurologist was helpful.

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  2. Wow that is some view from Tam's window, absolutely gorgeous. We still have no snow, I'm starting to feel very short-changed looking at everyone's lovely snow day photos. :-(

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    1. Yes, I am quite tempted to move my bedroom across to that one, but sheer laziness prevails . . . There is still a lot of Tam's and Danny/Emma's stuff in there too.

      I love snow to look at, but if you have to get anywhere, that can be a different matter.

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  3. I used to love snow, but aging, ill health and mobility issues certainly change our perception.

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  4. A beautiful early snow. I m so glad Tam is there with you.

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    1. Me too. She comes and stays a couple of nights most weeks.

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  5. Love the view from the window - that's the one hitch of a bungalow - no good views.
    No snow in Suffolk - thank goodness.

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    1. It was a bonus when buying this house, as we had mentally put "nice views" on our bucket list. Glad you avoided the snow.

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  6. I used to love closing the shutters at the manor, only one room had them but it was a huge room with a lot of windows. Lovely action and sound. We’ve flurries forecast tomorrow but we shall see, alas unlike North Dorset where we used to get snow, this close to the sea makes it rarer. Hope you’ve had an easier day with this pesky problem. Sending lots of love X Danette

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    1. The big one in Tam's room is ill-fitting, so a PITA to shut, but the small window one is perfect. They make a BIG difference to the room temperature. They are showing Devon is going to be a winter wonderland today, I wonder if it will hit you too?

      The pesky problem slightly eased but waiting for the test results yet.

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