Snow joke......

We were both quite excited yesterday. A nice weekend away in prospect. Now anyone opening the windows or looking online would know the weather for this weekend was not ideal. A look out the window this morning and nothing much was going to make it up the drive.

Need to use the fire engine to clear then, except the gales had blown the door slightly open annd the cab was a block of snow.

Off Taliesin went in his Discovery then, off he went and he went and this long figure came tramping down the drive. So, equiped with a selection of tools we set off, four of us, four hours later....... i was back in the house in the early stages of hypothermia.

So anyway we needed to get out so next door could get food. This time of year we try and keep the larder pretty full. Tallie and Dan went off in the disco and shogun heading for the main road over the fields. The road is sunken so there was no way they would get down that through the mounds of snow deposited there by the howling winds.

They had a great time too.

We called Brittany Ferries and cancelled, just as well, the Ouest France is full of stories and photos of French vehicles stuck and snow in places you would never normally see it.

With a bit of luck we should get away soon - just not this weekend.

R