A white, wet and windy week!

Sunday morning 10th December and we woke to a white world...

...and the snow continued to fall although more lightly by midday.  Then the wind picked up, blew in some rain clouds, just a little sunshine in between showers...with the resultant slush.

Heavy rain is forecast for later and tomorrow - so hoping it doesn't freeze tonight!

Monday - rough weather overnight with high winds and heavy rain left a dry, grey, quiet day - still cold but no sign of frost. A lull before the next band of windy, rainy weather which arrived in the evening.

Tuesday - a dry, bright day but still cold.  A bad attack of TN keeps me indoors while Ron takes a trip to Rodange, just over the French border in the Duchy of Luxembourg.  More wet and windy weather is forecast for this evening.

Hope it's getting the bad stuff out of the way before our Christmas/New Year trip to the UK.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - grey, wet and windy days with just occasional dry spells and even more-infrequent glimpses of the sun!  A dry spell through Saturday afternoon allowed the organisers to get ready for a visit by Papa Noel tomorrow.

Luckily overnight rain cleared to leave a dry day on Sunday...

Hot chocolate, wine, coffee, chestnuts - games, pony rides and Father Christmas distributing sweets for the children.











The forecast is more hopeful in time for our journey and we hope everybody has a very happy Christmas and New Year.

A little respite

After too many very cold, grey, wet and windy days the sight of sunshine for a while today was welcome.  After an overnight frost, the temperature reached just 03C but, with a keen wind, felt colder and although there was the urge to go out for a walk, neither conditions were conducive to arthritis or trigeminal neuralgia.  Instead we settled for a drive and enjoyed being out of the house for a while but sheltered from the wintry conditions.

The snow and frost had mostly disappeared but large puddles in water-logged fields were icy and one or two hills had retained a little snow.  It was still very cloudy in spite of the sun peeking through from time to time and some hills were a bit hazy as a result…so I had to ditch some of the photographs I took.  But these few show the varying conditions…

Approaching Delut from Marville.

We drove through Vitaraville and Delut to Marville, visited plan d’eau there, then returned home via the same roads, spotting birds of prey, rooks, blackbirds, a herd of cows and a couple of horses.  The birds will need to top up their food intake and we hope the beasts will be given shelter as the forecast is pretty dire for the coming days. As for ourselves, we will probably return to our hibernating state and thankfully are well stocked after a supermarket shop a couple of days ago.


The little respite over, it's time to batten the hatches once more!

First snow.

The forecasted snow arrived in the evening and more overnight but it was light and didn’t linger on the roads - just on rooftops and cars which had been parked overnight.

Centre ville this morning...

The statue has a white hat!

Seasonal lily berries and just a touch of snow.

Under the glass roof.

It really is time for that fly-screen to come down! Our "garden room" is cold enough!!

These days it is unusual for us to be out and about before 9.00.a.m. but today we had to in order to catch the nurse for our anti-'flu injection - and a nurse in only available at the health centre between 7.30. and 9.00.  Oh well, another tick on the to-do list and a chance to use the camera on the way there and back!  Now, where's that coffee...