Snow, snow and more snow

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view from the bedroom window
How great it is to look out of the bedroom window at the snow and know you don't have the panic of digging the car out, a treacherous journey and concerns about getting home again if the weather worsens.
 Being a teacher for most of my working life, this was a frequent experience in the winter. School management always seemed to dither when faced with the decision to close schools.  Consequently, you were usually stuck in an enormous traffic jam going nowhere, after getting up extra early to get the car going, when the text came through that school was closing. Great now all you had to do was get out of the traffic and spend the next hour or two slipping and sliding on the roads to get home.


Taffie, not sure what to make of this white stuff
Not for me anymore, apart from walking the dog...quite an adventure I'm tucked up in my cosy bungalow, homemade soup lots of it! and homemade bread in the oven yummy. 
view from the front of  the bungalow
Kinder is in the background but can't be seen due to the snow cloud




Might go out and clear the paths...but no hurry!!

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