Let it snow, let it snow...

It's snowing. Finally. After days of warnings and tales from the old folk, it started snowing this afternoon, and hasn't stopped since. It is barely settling, but who cares? Looks really pretty for the moment, and it isn't really that cold. We did an IKEA run yesterday and managed to get round the store without arguing and without initiating divorce proceedings. Pretty good for us. I think it is because we were awed into submission by the vastness of the retail park. Have we become so rural, or is it that retail parks have got bigger? Who knows, but it scared me into silence. We stuck to the list, bought what we need to and skulked back to the car. We even had to hit an oyster bar on the way home to make ourselves feel better. Ikea as retail therapy? I think not.

Wednesday 24 January update

Has now been snowing for 24 hours and is getting thicker. Stopped briefly overnight long enough to freeze and make the roads all skiddy and dangerous. Is now falling thick and fast and furious. Scarlet wants to go to her friend Claire's to build a snow man, snow woman, snow dog and snow cat ....all in a little snow house. Horse riding is cancelled as was the schol bus. Hmph.