Strewth!, this morning we woke to find more than a foot of snow on us and it was still falling. After the shock we had to look to our resources, water, gas, petrol. We are OK for gas and water so with the gas fire and the gas cooker we can cook and keep warm. The pipes are not frozen so we can still get water through from the hebe for drinking and the loo. The petrol for the genny will run out tomorrow night but that will only put our lights out and stop us communicating by SKYPE, Email or blog. So really we are OK and can sit this out for however long it takes. All of that being in hand, we can enjoy the panoramic, spectacular views of the mountains, valleys and our surroundings.
We hope that you can zoom into the pictures to see what it was like earlier this morning. Note the picture of the house and all the snow on the edges of the scaffold. Needless to say we don’t expect the builders on site today. It’s twelve o’clock now and I think that the snow has turned to rain. It’s around 1.5 degrees outside, and a cozy 19 inside. Since yesterday the barometer has gone from a low of 1003mbs (the lowest I’ve seen it so far) and steadily climbed to 1018mbs where it has leveled off.

The blue tinge to the pictures seems to be the camera compensating for all the white, until you zoom in and then it goes to normal setting. Has anyone got any explanation for this please?