Like Hoth but without the eye-candy

Well, I'm not going to London, or leaving the house today. There's 4 inches of snow on the ground, which doesn't slow down most of the world, but the base has come to a complete standstill. Doug won't take me to the train station in Didcot anyway, and it's likely school is cancelled.

I've been up since 5 am because that's when the alarm went off, and have been watching news, and online trying to find out wassup. Even if school is open, I'm going to ring them and tell them the twins won't be there- it ain't that important to risk our lives (or my car) over as there's now ice under all the snow. The base school, which shut two days ago, is unlikely to be open today is closed and the village school (where my two attend), I'm sure will now follow suit, but so far stubbornly seems to be the only school in the county still open. And it has.

Evidently all of south Oxfordshire, Wiltshire (just down the road) and Gloucestershire (up the road) are getting dumped on for the next two days. Huzzah. And I need to go shopping.

Just went out to stroll around (read: set out my rubbish) in my welly boots and bathrobe and it's tres beatiful. It's so peaceful and still and a bit warmer because that bloody Russian wind has gone. And I can hear the plows just outside the fence, but no one will come do any of the numerous roads I need to travel before getting to the gate.

I think I'd better brush up on my snowman-building skills. And I think it's a good day to re-read scrtkpr's Arctic Fox.

Like Hoth but without the eye-candy

Well, I'm not going to London, or leaving the house today. There's 4 inches of snow on the ground, which doesn't slow down most of the world, but the base has come to a complete standstill. Doug won't take me to the train station in Didcot anyway, and it's likely school is cancelled.

I've been up since 5 am because that's when the alarm went off, and have been watching news, and online trying to find out wassup. Even if school is open, I'm going to ring them and tell them the twins won't be there- it ain't that important to risk our lives (or my car) over as there's now ice under all the snow. The base school, which shut two days ago, is unlikely to be open today is closed and the village school (where my two attend), I'm sure will now follow suit, but so far stubbornly seems to be the only school in the county still open. And it has.

Evidently all of south Oxfordshire, Wiltshire (just down the road) and Gloucestershire (up the road) are getting dumped on for the next two days. Huzzah. And I need to go shopping.

Just went out to stroll around (read: set out my rubbish) in my welly boots and bathrobe and it's tres beatiful. It's so peaceful and still and a bit warmer because that bloody Russian wind has gone. And I can hear the plows just outside the fence, but no one will come do any of the numerous roads I need to travel before getting to the gate.

I think I'd better brush up on my snowman-building skills. And I think it's a good day to re-read scrtkpr's Arctic Fox.