Winter Wonderland?

Oh dear, any Canadians or Northern Scandawegian types reading this will be howling with laughter by the end. It has snowed in Blighty, actually quite heavily – it dumped best part of a foot on us - and so all of life as we know it has stopped. Airports are shut, cars can’t go anywhere as there are no snow ploughs & the grit stops working if it goes below -5, the trains can’t run as the points are frozen and so we are stuck! For me it’s no big as I commute from upstairs to downstairs but for others it has been a horror. Have had the joy of the hubby at home since Wednesday which has been wonderful, but the fact he can’t travel 17 miles is shocking! And the KC really not sure what to make of it all (the super eagle eyed will spot her staring straight at a Robin if you look closely at the photo) She has had a couple of go’s outside but is really not sure; she slipped badly at about 6am yesterday as she tried to jump over the snow to get back inside & missed the catflap, instead crashing headfirst into the doorframe which meant she went haring back into the deep (up to her shoulders!) snow & hid under the Leylandi meowing (complaining!) loudly. Hubby had to don wellies & get a torch & get on his hands & knees to persuade her it was safe to come back in before she woke the whole street with her unbelievable wailing! We have had a moment of amazement though. Knowing the weather would be iffy (not apocalyptic as it turned out to be) I went online & ordered a heap of groceries from Ocado. And I have to take my hat off to their delivery boys – no-one was going anywhere Weds night, hubby just about got home in 1 piece, trudging through the snow for 30 mins from the station as I really couldn’t get the 4x4 full on winter equipped Volvo out as the road had iced into a skating rink, yet the legendary Ocado boys Aaron & James who had started at 6am that day then got stuck in a snowdrift for 4 hours persevered with their deliveries for 18 hours & ended up walking our groceries to us through the knee deep snow at 9pm that night!!! Way beyond the call of duty! We did at least make them a cuppa as we were their last delivery. The Dunkirk spirit lives.I have sent notes to their bosses & even mailed Chris Evans for an on air thank you. Again – thank you boys, we have red wine & the KC has her Felix!!