Only one song for today. When the wind whips up, as it is starting to more and more as I write, I can barely see the far end of the garden.
Get out there and have a snowball fight with someone you love to laugh with. Make snowangels. Shake trees until laden boughs unburden themselves. Pat snowmen into shape. If there are little ones around, make some memories for them. With climate change going the way it is, who knows when we will next see snow like this?
Same here! Trying to find ingenious ways to feed the birds which don't use the hanging feeder, placing upside down boxes outside with sultanas on for the blackbirds and scattering seed under the hedge where the undergrowth is not buried beneath 8 inches of snow....
ReplyDeleteYou're right about having fun in it, though. Last time we had this much I built a voluptuous snowlady. You know, I gave her some fairly big appendages. Sadly, as everything started to thaw, she became a rather droopy reminder of the cruelty of ageing.....
Chez New Amusements, it's coconut shell halves packed with a fat/seed/nut concoction, and hung up in trees.
DeleteThink you need to build another voluptuous snowlady and take photographs to document her decline, time-lapse style. Think of the blog traffic you'd get...
Dead right,we went for a stroll along the seafront in the Baltic conditions and watching the kids(and dads)sledging down the grass to the beach takes you back. Went down a slight hill to demonstrate gentle handbrake slides to Meg in the car and managed to get stuck. Cue a walk home with an unimpressed daughter and the "you'll never learn"from the good lady,who is of course, quite right as ever. Fatballs is working for our feathered friends currently...
ReplyDeleteExcellent work, mate, especially on the gentle handbrake slide. We went out for a walk this afternoon and came across a chap in a fancy 4x4 who'd tried to go through a drift in a windswept country lane and got truly stuck. Was close enough for us to nip home and get shovels, so we then spent 45 minutes or so digging him out. Good Samaritans, maybe, but bad knee now trashed. Where's the karma?!?
DeleteYou will get your reward in heaven,I guess the chap didn't take your details and pop round with a thank you gift? Think I know the answer to that one!
ReplyDeleteNo, in mid dig he did say, "I'll owe you a drink after this" but never even asked our names. He was grateful though, and we had a feelgood buzz for a bit, so all good...
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