Too Much Snow

It started snowing on Wednesday night. And it has continued snowing, on and off, since then. I like snow. I really like snow. What I don't like is when it means that I can't send my children to school. I love my children, but there really is too much of a good thing. I am not getting much done. Well, nothing that resembles work anyway. There has been a lot of snowman building, a lot of putting on snow clothes, a lot of taking off snow clothes, a fair bit of sledging, and walking to and fro in the snow... but... I would really like to get back to our regularly scheduled programming, thank you very much. Life needs to go on!

 

We had an unknown visitor to our snowman one night...

And lots of well known visitors too








And now for something completely different: Garden Boy has been making pickled chilis again.


The recipe, if you are interested is by Louisa Eades

Three things

It has been snowy.

The children have been excited.

(Taken at 7:15 am!)

I have been baking.

Cranberry cake

Tiger bread

Playing Catch-up

It's been a while. I have no excuses, really. There's just been other things in my life taking priority. Either too much to say, or nothing to say. And nothing's going on in the garden. So there have been no 'Garden Adventures'.

But anyway. We had a really good weekend away at the end of October with a group of friends. We went to stay in a big Victorian house in Moffat. A hostel-type deal. And it was fantastic. Plenty of space for kids to play, an indoor sports hall/ basketball court and table tennis room, plus lots of room for grownups, and a big kitchen.

And the countryside around there is gorgeous:

Grey Mare's Tail Waterfall




St Mary's Loch

And today, while GardenBoy had to 'waste' a gorgeous sunny, warm November day at a conference we decided that these sort of days are to rare and precious to waste, so we went to the beach to hunt for fossils. We were lucky and the tide was WAY out so we walked along under the cliffs, fossil hunting, all the way to the end (nearly) before we got hungry and went back for our lunch.






View back towards Saltburn

After lunch we came back and made a Super Sandcastle, complete with a plastic bag flag we had found under the cliffs.



It was a Good Day.