Jan 03 2010
Slithering into 2010
So I sit here with only a day or so before I go back to work (Uggg!). We have had a fortnight of snow, well I hesitate to call it snow, as it has been frozen solid for much of that time and the drive and road is glass-like.
Christmas was spent quietly with parents visiting but we were ice bound for much of the time and I had a nasty cough. M & B managed to get out for a handful of walks, but not as many as they would have liked - and I had big plans to get out walking too.
Eventually I felt well enough to venture out properly and the four of us piled into the Trooper and hubby carefully drove us up to the wind turbine where we went for a short walk crunching through the icy crust on the snow. I had hoped to walk further into the hill track but the going was too tough and potentially soggy under the ice. M & B decided to walk home (about 2-3 miles) and I decided to join them. Hubby went off with the car to go to the shop. It was nice to be out and about after being confined to the house but boy it was cold! We stopped in briefly to visit Gem and her pal Murphy. I promptly managed to frighten her by taking a photo with a flash. It was a good walk, but I did hitch a lift the last half mile with hubby returning from the shops as I was puggled!
Parents safely got back to the West Coast and hubby and I plodded along doing very little expect eating leftovers. The road into ours and another four houses had only seen a gritter once. My wee car hasn’t moved for nearly two weeks now… but at least it is in the shed.
The ponies are doing incredibly well with very thick fluffy coats but with the frozen snow can’t get to much grass (not that there is much left on the field) so they get some hay ouside. They both, despite being natives like coming into the stable at night.
Today I was sitting idly browsing the net and being bored when I saw a gritter come up the road and back down again… yet again it didn’t come in by us. Doesn’t our council tax pay for this service? An angry Facebook comment later, and I found the OIC roads dept number and gave them a ring. I got an answer and whilst I was on the line the person at the other end radioed the gritter which only 5 mins before had missed us. Low and behold, it returned and did our road. Now that is service for you!
So, it is 2010 - it has a nice sound to it. What will it bring? I don’t know but I’ll just take it as it comes.
… one member of our menagerie spent most of the icy season asleep…
NJ, your kitty-pics are lovely as always (I would say that wouldn’t I!) but I’m getting a bit confused as to who is who. If Malf is the One Without White Bits, then who is the One With White Bits who looks even more like my all-too-handsome self than he?
One with the white bits is Merlin. Was christened ‘Big Cat’ in the summer by house sitter, but Malf has been given that title!
Merlin the magic cat
What is it with cats and sleeping in what looks to be the most uncomfortable places. Bubble often sleeps in their toybox … When it’s full of lumpy toys!
Great photos, dont know what the temp is with you,
minus 6 now in Blackpool, dont want it any lower.
It’s a tough life being a cat. Merlin is gorgeous. And I seriously covet that piece of rose quartz (?)!
beautiful puddie-tats … :- )
thank heavens for the stables, in this weather … I’m daft like that - I worry about *everything* that has to be outside at this time of the year …
Cats just like to prove - everywhere belongs to them - even the seemimgly unsleepable bits. Spock loves a lumpy pile of clothes, unfortunately for my housework badge there are always lots of them round.