I didn't go out yesterday My husband said I look just like a previous neighbour's house cat and looked like I needed to go out. Seeing as there is still snow on the ground and I fall over at the drop of a hat I stayed in, and I'll probably stay in today too. I would have ventured out for the 9.30 Mass for Epiphany but I need to stay in for the rat man who is coming at ten.
I'm going to make soup instead. My husband is going to the local farm he volunteers at this morning and I'm sure he'll be in need of warming sustenance when he returns.
I went swimming first thing, which involved some scraping of the car's windows. No snow here, in fact it's another sunny, frosty day. Rain is forecast for this evening. We shall be taking down the Christmas decorations and generally Tidying Up.
Mr Sainz Breeze has Obliged and I'm heading out for lunch with friends shortly, taking a bag of charity donations to be dropped off first. Our usual Tuesday lunch venue closed at Christmas so we are trying others... last week's wasn't a success...
I am also avoiding going out. My osteoarthritis means that I am wary of falls, which are painful and risky on my joints.
I have done my emails and admin and marked an essay. I am now back in the house and having a cup of tea whilst awaiting the departure of Mr Heavenly to catch a flight to the US (to the big annual consumer electronics show in Vegas) and Master Heavenly the Elder to catch a train back to York. I am very much a worrier when it comes to other people travelling so it will be a long day.
I need to mark another essay this afternoon and then get down to some writing of my own. I have an assignment due in next week which is a sample of writing for the dissertation. I have a beautifully edited and referenced introductory chapter written already but she wants a sample from a later chapter. As my scheduled goal this month is to write the first chapter I don’t yet have anything to submit. So this afternoon will be writing about Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) and humoral theory of illness.
Well soup is made and most Christmas decorations taken down. I can't reach the angel on top of the Christmas tree and need a hand with taking down the Christmas tree lights and putting the tree outside to be collected by the council. It was a month ago today that the tree arrived and it has been the best yet since we started having a big real tree when we moved here and had the room. I'm sorry to see it go in one way as it did look pretty, but I do like the feeling of moving forward into the new year.
I don't think I actually needed to stay in for the rat man as he just had a quick look and went away saying he'd text my husband. However I'm enjoying not doing much, tomorrow I have a council meeting in the evening and another meeting on Friday with a bookshop shift on Thursday. Hopefully by then the snow will have gone, though it looks like we might get rain instead.
I had no choice but to go out, because having only arrived yesterday we have no food in the house. Much of the snow had disappeared by time I went out, although by no means all of it, and the pavements are highly treacherous in places.
ISTM that a couple of centimetres of snow have caused a disproportionate amount of chaos. To my great disappointment, the cheesemonger was absent from the market, and clearly Lidl hadn't had any of their fresh products delivered. After finishing the shopping, I was amazed to find that the bus I wanted to get home wasn't running on account of bad weather. Given that the roads are now completely clear, I can't help feeling that the Parisian transport authority are rather taking the rip there.
Really rather miffed that I'm in that narrow band in the middle of the country without snow. It's my absolute most favourite type of weather and these snow-less winters we've been having recently are starting to get me down.
A grey and very cold day in Arkland the Frozen, where large Patches of Treachery have kept me from even going on deck, let alone ashore. I cancelled my first Pilates session of the year, as trying to negotiate the said Patches of Treachery whilst on two crutches seemed like a Bad Idea...
I fear that, with my 75th birthday due this summer (if I live), I am now officially one of the Old And Vulnerable™. Neighbours are advised by the government and the Met Office to look out for us, but mine already do.
O well. PIE & POTATOES for lunch, with CRUMPETS for later. In a serendipitous moment, whilst tidying the galley food cupboard, I discovered a large and almost untouched slab of dark CHOCOLATE, which proves beyond doubt that God loves us, and that She wants us to be happy.
The snow is really deep and I thought - if I make a snow angel I'll be completely in the snow -it'll be deeper than I am high, when I'm horizontal. This is an amazing opportunity!.
So I put hot water bottles into my bed, a towel and PJs on a radiator and made a mug of coffee. Then I changed into my swimming costume and headed out to make snow angels.
All was well and exhilarating till I tried to get back up. I had nothing to push myself up with, just soft snow. I couldn't get back up! I was starting to crawl back through the snow to my front door when the NE Man came to the rescue and hauled me to my feet.
The Loon, who was leaning out of the living room window, was supposed to take an arty photo of me in snow angel mode. Instead he video'ed the whole thing, including me floundering around inelegantly, like some sort of beached whale.
The warm PJs and snuggled up in bed with a hot water bottle bit was good, though.
There was a little snow about here this morning - more a layer of icing sugar than anything substantial. A bit more fell whilst the school run was on, but most of it seems to be melting now.
I've spent the day working from home, and finished an hour early so as to watch the livestream of an uncle's funeral. Couldn't attend in person as I have run out of leave until the new leave year in April and getting from the dark blue university city to the light blue university city takes a while. Might well log in to work again later as I have something I want to get done without being interrupted, and that way I don't have to sort out TOIL etc. (the boss is flexible, but I'd sooner keep my hours more or less straight).
Been looking at the forecast for later in the week, since we're meant to be visiting the Mother Maniac over the weekend. She's outwith the snow warnings, but there's quite a bit of rain forecast over there
I think there might have been a brief Sn*w shower in Arkland earlier today, but it didn't settle. Rain and gales are forecast for the next few days, though. If there's no Ice involved, I can at least attempt to get out and about.
Getting from the dark blue university city to the light blue university city takes a while.
In about 20 years' time - if you're lucky - you might get a direct train service back. (Incidentally the infamous Dr Beeching did not propose the "Varsity Line" for closure).
Really rather miffed that I'm in that narrow band in the middle of the country without snow. It's my absolute most favourite type of weather and these snow-less winters we've been having recently are starting to get me down.
Me too!
I love snow and we hardly ever get it here in Chichester.
But I do also like bright Winter days so I'm trying to enjoy that but it's not the same 😟
The snow is really deep and I thought - if I make a snow angel I'll be completely in the snow -it'll be deeper than I am high, when I'm horizontal. This is an amazing opportunity!.
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A week's research in Chichester is one of my dreams, @MrsBeaky. I have a long-term ambition to write a biography of a woman who taught at Bishop Otter's College, Chichester, in 1887. I need to find out the name of her close friend in Chichester before it would be worth my time coming down, though. All I know so far is that her friend had an "English accent" which doesn't narrow things down much in Chichester!
In the 1990s I used to live a few minutes walk from Tower Bridge, in a run down Victorian terrace house we rented in Curlew Street (which must be worth millions now). In the evenings we would get a bottle of wine and glasses and stroll down to the Thames and sit on a bench by the water, absorbing the atmosphere from the Butler’s Wharf restaurants we couldn’t afford to eat in.
I am looking forward to when the train line links Oxford and Cambridge. Lots of nimby opposition in the local villages though.
Some snow still on the ground here but it is disappearing. Master Heavenly has safely arrived back in York and Mr Heavenly is on an airplane to the US. I have managed to write a few hundred words of my chapter and will return to it tomorrow.
I have just got some fish out of the freezer and fancy something citrusy with it. This evening will be spent catching up with the new Traitors season.
A week's research in Chichester is one of my dreams, @MrsBeaky. I have a long-term ambition to write a biography of a woman who taught at Bishop Otter's College, Chichester, in 1887. I need to find out the name of her close friend in Chichester before it would be worth my time coming down, though. All I know so far is that her friend had an "English accent" which doesn't narrow things down much in Chichester!
Chichester is lovely, I've lived here 40 years and I did my PGCE at the Bishop Otter campus of what was then the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education.
If you do ever come down here and fancied it a Shipmeet would be a marvellous thing 😍
I don't have a TV, but I've been enjoying watching episodes of the vintage (!) crime series A Touch Of Frost on YouTube. David Jason, well-known in the UK as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses, does a first-rate job as the erratic, but engaging, Detective Inspector, aided and abetted by a wonderful selection of temporary Detective Sergeants...
The next episode is Series 10/2, to be uploaded on Thursday.
My mum grew up in Chichester and although she left West Sussex as a young woman she always yearned to go back. An aunt on my father's side trained at Bishop Otter college. A lot of my parents' history is based in that area.
We've had no extra snow here and as I was walking home this afternoon it was milder and starting to rain.
I did laugh at your post @North East Quine . I think I'd have taken the warm PJs and snuggling in bed without the snow angels bit, though.
I'll be interested in what you think of the new Traitors series @Heavenlyannie . Mr Nen and I are up to date with it, and with the Traitors Uncloaked, but are sworn to silence on the family WhatsApp because the Nenlets haven't caught up with it yet. We started watching it a few series ago so that we could talk to them about it and although I dislike games, and dislike the whole premise of it really, I have to confess we are hooked.
Enjoy your CHOCOLATE @Bishops Finger . I had a similar revelation of the love of God this afternoon. The friend I was having tea with had a semi-finished selection box and insisted that I take some home as the ones that were left were not ones she liked and would only go in the bin . Up to that point we were out of CHOCOLATE supplies at Casa Nen. Proof that God Provides.
My last totally free day for ages.
I have failed to get through my To Do list for all this free time I’ve had as I have been side-tracked by other things and because I have been very lazy.
This week my city choir started back( last night) but we have an extra rehearsal on Thursday for a concert next Saturday. It is a prestigious event with three of the Kanneh-Masons, and does not cost the choir anything as it’s not “ our” concert. We are singing Brahms’ Schicksalslied and Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region.
The forecast is imprecise, but snow could jeopardise the event. Such snow as we had has gone.
I took down the cards and decorations this afternoon and will clean up tomorrow in daylight. The decorations are going back in the garage, not the loft.
Really rather miffed that I'm in that narrow band in the middle of the country without snow. It's my absolute most favourite type of weather and these snow-less winters we've been having recently are starting to get me down.
Me too!
I love snow and we hardly ever get it here in Chichester.
But I do also like bright Winter days so I'm trying to enjoy that but it's not the same 😟
I was down in Chichester this summer. My grandparents lived in Littlehampton and I still have relatives down there. Went to see the Roman Villa at Fishbourne. Most of it is in fact in the fabric of the older buildings of Chichester, I gather.
Lovely to hear about Shipmates' connections to my beloved home city. @KarlLB the Roman thing is indeed very strong and there have been regular archaeological digs here in recent years.
Anytime any of you might be near here if you do fancy a Shipmeet please do say!
Oh wow - all this talk of Chihester! I did a BEd degree at Bishop Otter College from 1967 -1971 and absolutely loved it there - especially some digs in Canon Lane. I've been back many times since then and a walk around the city walls is still one of my favourite things!
Oh wow - all this talk of Chihester! I did a BEd degree at Bishop Otter College from 1967 -1971 and absolutely loved it there - especially some digs in Canon Lane. I've been back many times since then and a walk around the city walls is still one of my favourite things!
Despite having lived here for 40 years we still love that walk. We did it daily during Covid lockdown as we live 3 minutes walk from one of the walls. We're also spoilt in West Sussex with lovely walks on beaches and downs within striking distance.
The last of the Christmas stuff has been put away and I'm gearing up for a lazy evening as husband is out at a discussion group.
Tomorrow life gets back to normal starting with a Ramblers walk in @Puzzler's neck of the woods. It is a pretty short one, and the leader assures us the paths are good. The snow has all but disappeared so I think I'll remain upright.
Visited my blind lady then the library this morning, during a light snow shower. It’s raining now, very coldly.
Took the decs down this afternoon, sad to see them go.
I’m looking forward to the varsity line opening too. The line from here to Oxford is ready, so it’s frustrating that passenger trains aren’t running yet.
Although I didn't know the song, "yellow snow warning" always makes me giggle too.
The snow here, such as it was, has turned to rain: I ambled up to the Post Office after work to get some electricity, and got quite damp en route.
Supper was a concoction of pasta with (ready-cooked) chicken, green beans, lemon, garlic, basil and crème fraîche, with Parmesan and toasted pine nuts on top, which I think will be done again.
I'll have to make a renewed attempt to identify the friend. I don't even know whether she came from Chichester, just that Bessie was lecturing there, at Bishop Otter College, when they met. She might have been a visiting sister or cousin of someone there. The two women holidayed in Italy together, so she was comfortably off, and independent.
Bessie was working to earn enough to save up to put herself through a medical degree, probably aiming for the University of France in Paris, where another Aberdonian, Mary Anderson or Marshall had studied. Unfortunately her health failed. Italy was a holiday to convalesce. She recovered, but abandoned her plans to become a doctor.
Imagine wanting to become a doctor so much, that you spent years working and saving, whilst also knowing that your French had to be excellent, because you'd be studying medicine in French!
A little snow around lunchtime. A bit 'blink and you missed it", especially as it seemed to thaw before it even touched the ground.
My fridge freezer was switched off about 24hrs ago, and I switched on the radiator in the kitchen at 05:30, Water has been slowly trickling out all day, but there is still ice behind the back plate. The trickle is speeding up now, so I will have to be up early again to mop up the excess.
Sains delivery due tomorrow, I have had to do a last minute amendment to my shopping list, to remove anything that will need refrigeration, as it will take until Thursday morning to get the freezer cold enough to use.
It seems that the increased rate of trickle from my fridge freezer yesterday evening was the last of the melt-water draining away. I surrounded it with towels to soak up the leakage before I went to bed, and was up at five to check on the damage to the laminate kitchen floor.
Praise God! All bone dry - not a drop of water in the base of the freezer, not a wet towel and definitely no puddles. That pint I squeezed from the extra-sucky sponges before I went to bed must have have been the last.
Shame I didn't know that, I could have switched it back on, but it is now burbling happily away, and the kitchen is much tidier, so I am happier.
Now to arrange for someone to check that the cause wasn't something more serious than the split in the door seal of the fridge, and fit a new seal.
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The last Christmas card has now been taken down (why does one card/ornament always get missed when everything else is cleared away?)
Went early to the supermarket, treading very carefully in case there were slippery patches. I was congratulating myself on my caution when - in the car park and mere yards from the store entrance - I slipped on black ice and fell, quite hard. Fortunately I don't seem to have damaged anything; I crawled to a safer spot, got up, and did my shopping. But I could do easily have broken something ...
Day 6 of the snow and Aberdeenshire has been declared a Major Incident.
We are fine, within walking distance of a shop, and have no need to leave the village. All the main roads are being kept clear. All the schools are shut, which reduces the amount of traffic attempting the roads. But those in outlying districts are cut off and running out of supplies.
We were supposed to be doing a big baking today for a church event tomorrow but it's been cancelled, so the day stretches out before us. I'm planning to do my tax return.
We are off to my son's today to stay over then flying silly early in the morning to Majorca. The house sitter arrives this afternoon and the house is all prepared! She's coming from Germany - near Munich and has been here before. She loves the West country and she'll move on to Castle Cary to another house sit then back here in February when we are trotting off to Germany. 🙂
We had about 4 hours Proper Snow this morning. I'd estimate a couple of inches. Looking out of my 25th floor window, it looks like the roads are clear but not the pavements.
This morning Captain P had his therapy appointment. The reception area where I sit was woefully underheated, but the secretary was kind enough to offer me a hot cup of tea, so I wasn't unhappy.
The Captain has his theatre workshop this afternoon and after that I think we'll go to the park for a bit. Last time it snowed like this, he was about 2 days old and in an incubator, so this is a whole new experience for him.
Yikes, BT, hope you are ok. You might feel more bruised and sore tomorrow.
Overnight rain has taken all the snow away and it's currently bright and chilly here. We've had a couple of visitors this morning and I'm now trying to get my head round the rest of my week. My 2026 diary has a different layout and I'm currently not getting on with it at all.
Spaghetti bolognese for tea; a glass of red wine may be needed to wash it down.
Yikes, BT, hope you are ok. You might feel more bruised and sore tomorrow.
I know - I'm feeling bruised and sore now! My wife is concerned that I might have Broken Something, but I don't think I have. Quite frightening to think what could have been the consequences, though.
Sunny and cold but dry here today. A top up shop has been done with a few extra supplies in readiness for predicted snow. I would plan to miss tomorrow night’s rehearsal if it were not so crucial. @Sarasa I hope you enjoyed your walk near me. However if you were to drop in for a cuppa I could not offer you one as the water has been turned off without warning, apart from the fact that there is a Severn Trent van along the road mending a leak.
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I'm going to make soup instead. My husband is going to the local farm he volunteers at this morning and I'm sure he'll be in need of warming sustenance when he returns.
Bright and cold here.
I have done my emails and admin and marked an essay. I am now back in the house and having a cup of tea whilst awaiting the departure of Mr Heavenly to catch a flight to the US (to the big annual consumer electronics show in Vegas) and Master Heavenly the Elder to catch a train back to York. I am very much a worrier when it comes to other people travelling so it will be a long day.
I need to mark another essay this afternoon and then get down to some writing of my own. I have an assignment due in next week which is a sample of writing for the dissertation. I have a beautifully edited and referenced introductory chapter written already but she wants a sample from a later chapter. As my scheduled goal this month is to write the first chapter I don’t yet have anything to submit. So this afternoon will be writing about Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) and humoral theory of illness.
I don't think I actually needed to stay in for the rat man as he just had a quick look and went away saying he'd text my husband. However I'm enjoying not doing much, tomorrow I have a council meeting in the evening and another meeting on Friday with a bookshop shift on Thursday. Hopefully by then the snow will have gone, though it looks like we might get rain instead.
ISTM that a couple of centimetres of snow have caused a disproportionate amount of chaos. To my great disappointment, the cheesemonger was absent from the market, and clearly Lidl hadn't had any of their fresh products delivered. After finishing the shopping, I was amazed to find that the bus I wanted to get home wasn't running on account of bad weather. Given that the roads are now completely clear, I can't help feeling that the Parisian transport authority are rather taking the rip there.
I fear that, with my 75th birthday due this summer (if I live), I am now officially one of the Old And Vulnerable™. Neighbours are advised by the government and the Met Office to look out for us, but mine already do.
O well. PIE & POTATOES for lunch, with CRUMPETS for later. In a serendipitous moment, whilst tidying the galley food cupboard, I discovered a large and almost untouched slab of dark CHOCOLATE, which proves beyond doubt that God loves us, and that She wants us to be happy.
Do you have a view of the bridge?
The snow is really deep and I thought - if I make a snow angel I'll be completely in the snow -it'll be deeper than I am high, when I'm horizontal. This is an amazing opportunity!.
So I put hot water bottles into my bed, a towel and PJs on a radiator and made a mug of coffee. Then I changed into my swimming costume and headed out to make snow angels.
All was well and exhilarating till I tried to get back up. I had nothing to push myself up with, just soft snow. I couldn't get back up! I was starting to crawl back through the snow to my front door when the NE Man came to the rescue and hauled me to my feet.
The Loon, who was leaning out of the living room window, was supposed to take an arty photo of me in snow angel mode. Instead he video'ed the whole thing, including me floundering around inelegantly, like some sort of beached whale.
The warm PJs and snuggled up in bed with a hot water bottle bit was good, though.
I should think a wee dram or several of WHISKY might be in order, too...
I've spent the day working from home, and finished an hour early so as to watch the livestream of an uncle's funeral. Couldn't attend in person as I have run out of leave until the new leave year in April and getting from the dark blue university city to the light blue university city takes a while. Might well log in to work again later as I have something I want to get done without being interrupted, and that way I don't have to sort out TOIL etc. (the boss is flexible, but I'd sooner keep my hours more or less straight).
Been looking at the forecast for later in the week, since we're meant to be visiting the Mother Maniac over the weekend. She's outwith the snow warnings, but there's quite a bit of rain forecast over there
Me too!
I love snow and we hardly ever get it here in Chichester.
But I do also like bright Winter days so I'm trying to enjoy that but it's not the same 😟
Thank you, first belly laugh of 2026!
I am looking forward to when the train line links Oxford and Cambridge. Lots of nimby opposition in the local villages though.
Some snow still on the ground here but it is disappearing. Master Heavenly has safely arrived back in York and Mr Heavenly is on an airplane to the US. I have managed to write a few hundred words of my chapter and will return to it tomorrow.
I have just got some fish out of the freezer and fancy something citrusy with it. This evening will be spent catching up with the new Traitors season.
Chichester is lovely, I've lived here 40 years and I did my PGCE at the Bishop Otter campus of what was then the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education.
If you do ever come down here and fancied it a Shipmeet would be a marvellous thing 😍
The next episode is Series 10/2, to be uploaded on Thursday.
We've had no extra snow here and as I was walking home this afternoon it was milder and starting to rain.
I did laugh at your post @North East Quine . I think I'd have taken the warm PJs and snuggling in bed without the snow angels bit, though.
I'll be interested in what you think of the new Traitors series @Heavenlyannie . Mr Nen and I are up to date with it, and with the Traitors Uncloaked, but are sworn to silence on the family WhatsApp because the Nenlets haven't caught up with it yet. We started watching it a few series ago so that we could talk to them about it and although I dislike games, and dislike the whole premise of it really, I have to confess we are hooked.
Enjoy your CHOCOLATE @Bishops Finger . I had a similar revelation of the love of God this afternoon. The friend I was having tea with had a semi-finished selection box and insisted that I take some home as the ones that were left were not ones she liked and would only go in the bin
I have failed to get through my To Do list for all this free time I’ve had as I have been side-tracked by other things and because I have been very lazy.
This week my city choir started back( last night) but we have an extra rehearsal on Thursday for a concert next Saturday. It is a prestigious event with three of the Kanneh-Masons, and does not cost the choir anything as it’s not “ our” concert. We are singing Brahms’ Schicksalslied and Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region.
The forecast is imprecise, but snow could jeopardise the event. Such snow as we had has gone.
I took down the cards and decorations this afternoon and will clean up tomorrow in daylight. The decorations are going back in the garage, not the loft.
I was down in Chichester this summer. My grandparents lived in Littlehampton and I still have relatives down there. Went to see the Roman Villa at Fishbourne. Most of it is in fact in the fabric of the older buildings of Chichester, I gather.
@KarlLB the Roman thing is indeed very strong and there have been regular archaeological digs here in recent years.
Anytime any of you might be near here if you do fancy a Shipmeet please do say!
Despite having lived here for 40 years we still love that walk. We did it daily during Covid lockdown as we live 3 minutes walk from one of the walls. We're also spoilt in West Sussex with lovely walks on beaches and downs within striking distance.
Tomorrow life gets back to normal starting with a Ramblers walk in @Puzzler's neck of the woods. It is a pretty short one, and the leader assures us the paths are good. The snow has all but disappeared so I think I'll remain upright.
Took the decs down this afternoon, sad to see them go.
I’m looking forward to the varsity line opening too. The line from here to Oxford is ready, so it’s frustrating that passenger trains aren’t running yet.
I've not clicked yet but knowing you - something to do with never eating yellow snow?
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The snow here, such as it was, has turned to rain: I ambled up to the Post Office after work to get some electricity, and got quite damp en route.
Supper was a concoction of pasta with (ready-cooked) chicken, green beans, lemon, garlic, basil and crème fraîche, with Parmesan and toasted pine nuts on top, which I think will be done again.
Bessie was working to earn enough to save up to put herself through a medical degree, probably aiming for the University of France in Paris, where another Aberdonian, Mary Anderson or Marshall had studied. Unfortunately her health failed. Italy was a holiday to convalesce. She recovered, but abandoned her plans to become a doctor.
Imagine wanting to become a doctor so much, that you spent years working and saving, whilst also knowing that your French had to be excellent, because you'd be studying medicine in French!
I have a very romantic image of Chichester!
My fridge freezer was switched off about 24hrs ago, and I switched on the radiator in the kitchen at 05:30, Water has been slowly trickling out all day, but there is still ice behind the back plate. The trickle is speeding up now, so I will have to be up early again to mop up the excess.
Sains delivery due tomorrow, I have had to do a last minute amendment to my shopping list, to remove anything that will need refrigeration, as it will take until Thursday morning to get the freezer cold enough to use.
Praise God! All bone dry - not a drop of water in the base of the freezer, not a wet towel and definitely no puddles. That pint I squeezed from the extra-sucky sponges before I went to bed must have have been the last.
Shame I didn't know that, I could have switched it back on, but it is now burbling happily away, and the kitchen is much tidier, so I am happier.
Now to arrange for someone to check that the cause wasn't something more serious than the split in the door seal of the fridge, and fit a new seal.
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The last Christmas card has now been taken down (why does one card/ornament always get missed when everything else is cleared away?)
Glad the fridge freezer seems sorted, RoS.
Sunny here, I might actually get out for a walk. Then I need to do some admin and marking, before getting back to the dissertation this afternoon.
We are fine, within walking distance of a shop, and have no need to leave the village. All the main roads are being kept clear. All the schools are shut, which reduces the amount of traffic attempting the roads. But those in outlying districts are cut off and running out of supplies.
We were supposed to be doing a big baking today for a church event tomorrow but it's been cancelled, so the day stretches out before us. I'm planning to do my tax return.
Hope the bruising isn't too bad.
We are off to my son's today to stay over then flying silly early in the morning to Majorca. The house sitter arrives this afternoon and the house is all prepared! She's coming from Germany - near Munich and has been here before. She loves the West country and she'll move on to Castle Cary to another house sit then back here in February when we are trotting off to Germany. 🙂
We had about 4 hours Proper Snow this morning. I'd estimate a couple of inches. Looking out of my 25th floor window, it looks like the roads are clear but not the pavements.
This morning Captain P had his therapy appointment. The reception area where I sit was woefully underheated, but the secretary was kind enough to offer me a hot cup of tea, so I wasn't unhappy.
The Captain has his theatre workshop this afternoon and after that I think we'll go to the park for a bit. Last time it snowed like this, he was about 2 days old and in an incubator, so this is a whole new experience for him.
Overnight rain has taken all the snow away and it's currently bright and chilly here. We've had a couple of visitors this morning and I'm now trying to get my head round the rest of my week. My 2026 diary has a different layout and I'm currently not getting on with it at all.
Spaghetti bolognese for tea; a glass of red wine may be needed to wash it down.
Sunny and cold but dry here today. A top up shop has been done with a few extra supplies in readiness for predicted snow. I would plan to miss tomorrow night’s rehearsal if it were not so crucial.
@Sarasa I hope you enjoyed your walk near me. However if you were to drop in for a cuppa I could not offer you one as the water has been turned off without warning, apart from the fact that there is a Severn Trent van along the road mending a leak.