I’ve lived all of my life on the coast, so I’m used to lacklustre snow that tends not to stick - with a few memorable exceptions of course (February ‘98 being one. See? So rare, I remember the year and the month).
I can’t remember us ever having snow like this. Not that there’s feet of it, but it just won’t stop! It all seemed to be petering out last night, until about half past ten when another flurry descended. Very pretty, and a bit bizarre: with no cars on the roads and no other people around, it felt as though Captain Neil and I could were the only people in the country. Until we heard the next door neighbours crashing about, that is.
I cleared Muriel of snow this morning before tootling off to work in my wellies. I’ve been keeping my shoes under my desk - there’s definitely no use for them outside!
The snow was really coming down all afternoon and, at 4 o’ clock, when an email whizzed around telling us that one of the two routes out of town had been closed, I decided to make a break for it. I trotted the three-quarters of a mile back to Muriel (I’m too tight to pay to park, plus, it’s exercise!) and found my poor French bean loitering under another thick coating of snow. All scraped off and heaters blasting, we made the 10-mile journey home in about 40 minutes. I was very glad I got away before rush hour!
I do like the snow but I’m getting just a bit sick of it now. I haven’t been exercising much (even riding was cancelled) and the cold’s making it very hard to resist gorging on cake. I think that if I was off work, I’d be thrilled with the weather: lots of schlomping on the sofa in the warm, big jumpers, reading, knitting and tea. Somehow, when you’re tearing yourself out of bed and squeezing into a pencil skirt and tights, the snowy weather doesn’t have quite the same chocolate-box appeal. I’m pretty jealous of all the schoolkids who’ve bagged bonus days off this week!
On the knitting front, I’m clicking along on what I hope will be my second beSottied knits pattern. All I’ll say is… everyone loves fingerless mitts! I can’t say I’m in a huge rush to finish them, though: I think we’ll all be wanting to keep full-fingered gloves on for a good while yet. Oh and, apologies for this photo: I know that the flash makes it look like something snapped at a crime scene. We haven’t had much daylight here of late!
This weekend, I’ve decided to try tackling my IT ‘to do’ list. Most things on the list are beSottied related. I’ll write them here, in the hope that it will shame me into doing some of them:
- Sort out what’s going on with bullet points in the blog. Sometimes they’re there, sometimes not. Why?!
- Make it so that my lovely visitors can browse my entries by tag
- Have another go at setting up the beSottied mailbox on the new computer. I can receive emails, but not send them
- Update the Year of Adventure page somehow
- Update my sidebar accordingly
(…crikey. This is longer than I thought)
- Give some thought to giving the site a bit of a spruce-up for 2010
- Update my ‘favourite links’, as they are woefully out of date
Hmm! I wish I hadn’t done that now!
Happy weekend to everyone. If it’s snowy where you are, have fun, and keep warm! And follow mutti’s advice and stick a blanket in your car, just in case (though I do draw the line at carrying a shovel in the boot).
Muriel looks simply darling with a blanket of snow! Too bad it can’t clear itself off…now that’s highly un-darling.