Just about 30 yds from the gate in fact, and then the ice got the better of me - I got a wheel in an icy dip in our track and that was it, we woz going nowhere! The journey into Llandod for groceries was fine - our lane navigable, main road fine too, though I kept to a sensible speed just in case. Freezing fog all day had not helped our track though and as I turned into it, the car decided it would like to go sideways. I reversed, turned in higher above the obviously slippy bit, and made a little progress, some of it sideways, but hey, it was forwards too. Then the wheel got into the frozen puddle dip and that was it. I went and got a shovel and started putting grit from the nearby bin down in front of the wheels and along the track. I saw our next door neighbour was at home (not window cleaning weather!) and asked him if he could help and between us we got the car going and into the yard. The first thing I had to do then was to phone the Dentists' and tell them we would not be coming along to our 2.30 appt, as even if we got out, no way were we going to get back in again and I couldn't risk Keith falling on the ice if he had to get out to walk.
The view yesterday across to the Quarry.
It would seem we have this weather for the week. It was - 5 last night, and as I type this is already -3. The cats have insisted that this is the weather to be indoors and who can blame them. When they go out for ablutions though, I have to keep checking the cat flap as it got stuck a few days ago and they haven't worked out that it is functioning again, and so just sit there, waiting to be let in. Since the babies have been sleeping on the kitchen chairs during the day, the Big Boys seem to have accepted them more, as they are more used to their scent I suppose.
Hoar frost has covered all the trees and hedges with a silver sculpture.
With not a great deal to do this afternoon, I cleaned the top oven and grill pan, hung up the washing and then settled down to re-read Phil Rickman's The Fabric of Sin again. Love his books.
