What we did today

We woke this morning to even more snow - it looked like this - and since then there's been more yet. Very romantic, Stomper Girl? Well. Kinda. There's a certain appeal about being unable to go anywhere for a bit. A fleeting appeal.

I rather like the juxtaposition of the pink pelargoniums (rescued from the patio the other week) and the white garden.

This was the view from the front door.

This was the view from Daughter 2's bedrooom. Can you see the disapproval in every muscle of Sirius's body?

Down the lane I went to the main road to collect the paper.

Looking up the street. Like to try driving up this? Ha ha ha.

Down might be ok. But then what? It's a dead end apart from the lane.

This is the adjacent street that our car's parked in till it thaws - there it is, four cars up on the left. Not really sure I want to try driving it down this road either.

Still, Daughter 1 and Son-in-Law arrived on the bus for lunch. Daughter 1 has been knitting gnomes and a Santa to fit round wine corks.

Spot the intruder.

He looks good in a hat, don't you think?

Consternation among the gnomes. (He's a Lewis chess man, or a replica of one of them.)

(Well, on a snowy day you have to find amusement where you can.)

Sirius has a sniff.

Three of them - a bit many for a sensitive cat. He has to pretend they're not there.

Sirius and Cassie decide to go out.

Cassie bravely takes a few steps.

Then they both return. It's a sofa day, they've decided.

Work tomorrow; there's an appealing thought. Funny how appealing and appalling are so similar and yet so different...