Wednesday February 10th, 2021.
We have endured 2 days of continuous snow; wow you might think that’s a lot but hardly a flake settled. It was quite strange snow, more granular in structure than flakes, it melted when it hit the ground but did not make to the road wet. This may have something to do with it being 0 degrees with a wind chill factor of -3. The ground is frozen and miniature drifts line the bottom of walls and ruts of earth, Caroline’s car opposite us was covered in it and ours was bare.
Consequently, we did not venture far Monday and Tuesday although I did escape to the pet shop to get Willow some more food and had a quick scoot around Marks and Spencer’s food shop, wow that’s an expensive place to shop. It was full of old folk, same place that I had a bad experience with back in December. They must have very good pensions as the prices were eye watering.
Today Wednesday, a bright a sunny day we walked down to Mark the fish man and purchased some lovely Hake for tonight’s dinner. Sun on our faces on the way down but a cold wind for the journey home. Later we went to the farm for eggs, no Chickens, Geese or Reindeer to be seen they must all be hiding in their stables. Temperature in the car says 2 degrees but the wind chill takes it down to -3.
As we are out, out we stop off at Hurley and walk our running circuit, for a change of venue and scenery. Soooo lovely to be out in the countryside, we thought the wind might be a bit fierce down here, but all was well, and we had a good walk, short but enough in this climate.
Little clumps of Snowdrops push through the greenery and snowy patches on the verges. Puddles are frozen solid, and patches of black ice are on the road, the air is sharp and fresh and feels clean and energising. Hurley cricket pitch is flooded and frozen over so looks more like a skating rink.
A nice bowl of homemade Minestrone soup for lunch, finished off my jigsaw, wrote up the diary and now downstairs for some more of The West Wing a cup of tea and maybe a slice of cake if I am lucky.
Liz has got her jab tomorrow.
Jeremy and Nic had some excitement the other evening as a neighbour found a hand grenade in a suitcase, like you do! Called to the police who Informed Jeremy & Nic they might have to evacuate their house. The MOD were called in to assess the situation. I don’t know the outcome of it yet only to say Jeremy slept in his clothes in case a speedy getaway was required. Some great fun with a balloon and a pin could have been had that night.
Tomorrow is set to get even colder still with the wind chill it is forecast to be -9 no good for Southern softies.
I thought these flowers were so pretty they deserved a place here and they smell beautiful too.
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