Snow Pictures

For everyone who missed the snow fall yesterday, I thought that I would share some pictures that I took in February 2007 of snow in our back garden (and beyond).

This first picture was taken on 9th February on our third day in a row of snow fall that week. The snow was coming down so thickly that we couldn't see the hill behind our house at all!

I think that this pic is one of my favourites, the lilac tree by our back door has it's branches at just the right angle to catch any snow that comes and when the sun then shines through the tree it's looks magical.

Early morning, looking out from my bathroom window, the sun rising and lighting half of Gwystedyn Hill, this was taken on 8th February before the heavy snowfall shown in the first pic.

Well, we have had no snow yesterday or today so far (which suits me fine as I only grumble like mad about being cold when it does arrive!).

Chat later, Liz

There's no business like snow busyness

BRRR! Today's weather watch reports that it is jolly chilly here in Rhayader, so cold that Dave quietly commented that even snowmen would die of hypothermia. It almost snowed today, there were a few teeny weeny snowflakes, but they obviously decided it was too cold to stay and moved on.

Here at home, we are doing our best to keep warm, the central heating has been switched on a little earlier than usual, doors to all the rooms are closed to contain the heat and we are curled up under quilts and wearing scarves until the heating system has done its job. In another hour or so the house will be toasty warm again.

I am never sure whether it is better to leave the central heating running all day, so that the house stays warm and it only has to do a gentle top up every now and then or whether the heating should just come on mornings and evenings, but currently we do the latter. I expect that it all depends on the efficiency of the insulation, age of heating system etc etc.

It's been busy at work again this week and although I like Christmas, I am rather pleased to get back into the routine of things once it is over. Dave and I have been developing our ideas for some specialist websites to sit along side our Pretty Practicals site and to that end we hope that by the end of February we will be able to launch additional sites that concentrate on patchwork quilts, vintage chic interiors, cream French furniture and country style homes. I'll tell more when we get a bit further in our planning.
Chat soon, Liz

Ooh, chatting again sooner than I thought I would, it's now just after 11pm and our house is fantastically warm, in fact it's almost hot in here ~ hooray!

I have spent a lovely evening browsing some of my favourite blogs. I have only recently discovered that there is a whole world out there of women, who just like me run a business and home and (unlike me) also find the time to be incredibly creative and make some beautiful things, like cards, bags, gifts etc and who write great blogs about their comings and goings. When I work out how to, I will put links to their blogs on this one.

I have read through an essay that Cecily has written for university and (hopefully) tactfully pointed out a few grammatical errors; please don't read my blog for an example of good grammer. I dug out a few essays that I wrote at uni, in the hope that they may have some info that would be of use to her. Good grief, I wrote a lot of twaddle ~ I can't believe that I wrote so passionately about a Marxist-feminist view of macro-economics! Actually I am quietly impressed with the standard of work that I produced, given that I started university (as a mature student), when Alec was aged 5 and Cecily was just 6 weeks old.

Dave has wandered into the drawing room to watch a bit of Star Trek (TNG), so I will join him. Chat soon (again), Liz