More snow

We hadn't completely got rid of the snow from before Christmas when more fell. The BBC seem to have moved into Basingstoke as we are one of the hardest hit areas again. This was the view from my sewing room window on Tuesday evening before the worst of it fell and before anyone walked or drove on it.












It kept on snowing during the night so was a lovely sight yesterday morning. it kept on snowing all morning but eased off during the afternoon.

I am so please that I filled all the bird feeders last week as it wasn't easy to get out to the shed.

Even more pleasing is that we have the ducks at home as the only way we could have got to the allotment was on foot and as the snow is about 18" deep and it is about 4 miles, Nick would have been going it alone.









As Nick was unable to get to work, I had company and braved outside, so with three hats, two scarves, a coat, two pairs of socks and two pairs of gloves (I worked out I was wearing 22 items of clothing) we decided to got for a walk.

We were not the first so the snow was reasonably compacted on the path. I am not sure if it was because I was wearing a wardrobe worth of clothes or just that there was a fault with the street light but I felt that we should wait quietly to see if Mr Tumnus appeared! No sign of lions thought.

Tesco was open with a skeleton staff but no other shops other than Costa Coffee so we felt obliged to stop and have a cup of hot chocolate. It was lovely. We got a seat in the window and watched slipping and sliding going on outside.








It was a bit of deja vue walking back as that Russian chap was back again but it turned out to be Nick. He decided that it would be good to show how deep the snow was so stepped off the path not realising that it was about the top of his wellies. Silly boy!










We walked back pas the infant school and there was a family who were building a family of snow people in the field. It was difficult to see where they had taken the snow from as it hadn't taken much rolling to get them this big and more was falling.