It is Sunday and time to gather my wits. The snowy weather combined with low temperatures put many of our (and everyone else's) activities on hold this week. It certainly highlights the important things in life: food, shelter, water. It was difficult getting to the shops, the heating had to be kept on in our houses as many people had frozen pipes. Yes, we had frozen pipes upstairs in the bathroom but Iain caught the problem quickly. He put a fan heater in the roof space (as the pipe was not lagged) and thawed out the ice in the pipe leading to the upstairs bathroom. So much for his energy conservation efforts!
After 2 days of thaw (thank goodness for the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream, here on the west coast the the British Isles!) life is returning to normal but more cold and snowy weather is forecast for the coming week.
I headed off to Anne's for a visit. Here is where we sit in the summer sun. St Germaine's Loch is frozen and there are no coots or ducks to be seen.
The sun was low in the sky at 3 pm. In ten days it will have reached its lowest point and begin to come up again. (Actually, apparently, that is not strictly true; there are a few days after the solstice that the sun sinks and then it starts to rise again.)
Leaves in Anne's garden.
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