Even more snow

 Like I said in a previous post, a little more snow and it's chaos.                                                     

A couple of photos I took this morning outside our front gate after another snowfall last night.

Let me tell you what happened yesterday.

Mrs "stuff to do" went off early afternoon to do some music teaching and whilst she was out, decided to do a bit of food shopping, in the meantime however it decided to snow a bit, very wet heavy snow that didn't stop, and it had turned very dark by the time the shopping was finished.

The return journey which usually takes a quarter of an hour turned out to be a marathon one and a half hour crawl and stop.

There are some pretty steep hills around us and there are no alternatives to having to go up and down them, so having set off from the shops up one of the heavily wooded roads through the hills she encountered two large trees that had succumbed to the weight of snow and had fallen across the road blocking it completely. Luckily about two cars behind her was a man in a van, who just happened to have a wood saw and both he and his mate started sawing through this 1ft diameter trunk taking it in turns as it turned out that it wasn't a chainsaw but an ordinary wood saw. With eventually one half of the road open she turned off onto our single track road that serves the few houses scattered in the forest, fields and countryside until sliding around rather a lot the car came to a halt, wheels spinning, going nowhere. Up comes her knight in shining armour in the shape of our friend the local farmer's son on his trusty ancient tractor replete with tow rope. After arriving on our drive and unloading we both enjoyed the beef and Guinness stew with dumplings that had been simmering on the woodburner awaiting our attention.