........with reference to the previous post

..............sorry John..............

A Sweet Outbreak

When the weathers all snow and ice and the best place is with your feet up by the roaring log fire.

What better to time to break into that box with the glamorous gold packing.

....the penultimate box of Sweet Georgia Browns...

.....That elegant box of salty sweet confections.......

That scrumptious soft chewy toffee with those oh ever so slightly salted pecans, topped with a generous globule of shiny brown chocolate. A sweetmeat to nibble on, slowly, to savour that salty sweet taste melting in your mouth.

.......Only one box left, oh no............

What will Poor Robin Do Then, Poor Thing.

Yesterday morning I gingerly poked my head out of the back door. It was fresh and frosty, but no icy wind to contend with. No snow for us. The rest of the country was suffering. But here, the birds were twittering away with their pre spring dawn chorus.

This morning at the same time. What a difference. There was an eerie silence. Not a bird in sight or a bird song to be heard. A 6inch thick pall of wet snow covered the ground. Clogging up the bushed and trees. Gradually, they came, searching in the snow for food. The robin, blackbirds, starlings, sparrow, tits, finches, magpies and doves. In the trees the little gold finches pecked away at the seed feeders as did the blue tits. The poor ground feeding birds were suffering so I donned waterproof shoes, coat, hat, gloves and bravely shoveled a path through the snow to put their food out where they would normally look for it.

Take some melted fat preferable suet

add bird seed, oats, seed, nuts and dried fruits.

Mix well and allow to set.

Winter ambrosia for birds.

So please, feed the birds when our weathers icy and snow covered or we wont have their wonderful songs to listen to and their antics to entertain us

An Almost Canadian Day!

We woke this morning to a day of potential chaos. Two decades of drivers out there with no experience of driving in these conditions. Who would want to be driving today. Not a day for Seniors to add to the chaos either so sadly we cancel our lunch appointment.

It was definitely a morning for this.

and this.

Actually we love stomach lining, gloopy, porridge running with sweet maple syrup.

Hats, scarves and gloves are essential this morning .

Well sitting by the fire knitting them are!

A 'white out'? well almost. Six inches of the white stuff dumped on us overnight. The most snow we've had since the mid 1980's. But still not as much as I experienced over the last two months in Canada. It's a different snow as well. Over there it was dry and powdery, here it's heavy and wet and quickly turns to slush.

A winter wonderland?

Definitely for the kids!

Just about every school in Cambridgeshire closed. Over 1400 schools. The radio news readers were having trouble keeping up with reading out the closures.
Our schools didn't close when we were kids in the 1950's. We also had much more snow then and more often. We walked to school, in wellie boots with our gym plimsolls to change into. We were expected to get there and teachers were expected to turn up. We made slides in the playground and had snowball fights. In general we had FUN even if we got wet gloves and frozen fingers.

Do you like my very own skating rink.

Hope the poor fish are OK under that lot.

The car had to be dug out.

Before 'Nearly Canadian Dave' could get to work.

My poor sweet smelling, winter flowering Viburnum bush has suffered badly. I'll have to wait and see what other plants have suffered.