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.