Showing posts with label snowy weather; Olivia Cockett wartime book;. Show all posts
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Monday, 5 January 2026

A Snow Day

 


Beautiful isn't it?  I will go for a little wander up the lane later, when some traffic has been through.


When I padded to the bathroom in the night I could see we had had a reasonable fall of snow (a couple of inches) but I suspect up on the hills it will have been heavier.  The A44 was opened again once they cleared the accident and is open now.  Not that I am planning to go to Aberystwyth!  Tam has had snow, but not as much as here.  

I have been watching "Crusoe" on tv, and enjoying that.  Plus several History Hits programmes - I love to learn more about history and archaeology.  I am able to do my cat embroidery whilst having one eye on the screen.  I've been reading a few chapters more of Olivia Cockett's Love and War in London.  Her writing style isn't exactly geared for a quick read, and her relationship (with a married man who, having cocked up a divorce, apparently never tried again) is a difficult one.  

The cats have decided, after one sniff at the cat flap, that a Snow Day has been called and all have found warm chairs to sit on.  It was 13 deg. in the kitchen again this morning, which is why I was the filling for a kitten sandwich in the night.  It took me a while to get off to sleep as I was too warm in bed, but then I slept till 8.40 a.m. and woke to snow light shining in above the shutters and curtains.  Off out for a short walk any moment, to catch the scenery at its snowiest, before the sun melts the snow on the trees and hedgerows.  More photos later.