Well we are in March.....Spring apparently!
I woke on Thursday to even more snow and no.......I wasn't going anywhere.
Neither was anyone else and the Head Teacher had closed the school.
The cats were going a little stir crazy....too cold to go out for them but they wanted to!
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It snowed on and off for most of the day but the wind was the scary bit........made it feel like -12 and gale force....it was blowing the snow from the trees and making snow drifts.
So we watched the snow and the blowing trees while cosy in the house. Hubby on the other hand was battling his way home from London!
I went to feed the birds.....a few times.
but couldn't persuade Daisy to come with me!
Then I thought it was time to venture out to blow the cobwebs away.
They all followed me out......but soon turned back.
I decided to do a favourite walk of ours. Up the green lane behind our house.
Through the woods. Plenty of people had already been along the path.
Past my favourite row of trees on the hill.
The wind was still whipping up the snow and blowing it across the path,
I reached the village of Mill Bank, snuggled down in the valley.
But I don't turn towards the village I head up the lane towards the village of Making Place
The wind was getting stronger here and the snowdrifts were getting bigger.
Then I reached this bend in the road......
I couldn't go on.....the wind was whipping the snow up into a blinding blizzard and the drifts were up to my knees!
I reluctantly turned back.
I was half way back down the lane I had just come up when a snow plough went past me up the hill. I carried on back through the woods.
When I got back to this point.....this is the lane I would have been coming back down had I made it round to Making Place.
So I just popped up to have a look at the line of trees from a slightly different angle.
I just love this walk. We do it in all seasons and it never disappoints.
When I got Home the cats were happy to get cosy again.
The M62 motorway and other local trans-Pennine routes have been closed for days. We couldn't get anywhere by car, Hubby made it home late last night by train....just!
So today the cats and I have been joined by Hubby who can't get to work either. He has worked from home and we have pottered about.
I did some stitching for my sampler.
I did try and sketch in my sketchbook but Daisy had other ideas!
I made flapjacks instead!
The wind is still blowing and the roads are still closed..... The evening is drawing in and we will see what the weekend brings.
