[JulieS]

What a day for my boiler to breakdown!  Luckily the holiday cottage has it's own boiler, so they are nice and cosy in there. 


I do hope the boiler man calls back soon.  Sitting here in my coat, hat and gloves......What a picture that would make!



Hope everyone else is OK and the weather isn't causing you any problems. 

[HappyHippy]

Oooo the weather's not causing me any problems - I've just resigned myself to not getting out  But the roads down here are awful ! The milk tanker has slid off the road for the first time in 8 or 9 years and rescue attempts have failed ! My dad and hubby are trying to get out, but short of shovelling snow for 3 miles don't know quite how they're going to manage it It's a REAL winter, like the kind I fondly remember as a child - but then I didn't have the worry of how to get food and shopping in (loo rolls are getting very low!) or people out ! The kids are loving it though, and playing outside quite happily in it for hours on end (they just don't seem to feel the cold) it's not all bad 
I hope you get your boiler fixed soon Julie - can't be much fun at all 
Time to knock up a quick cake and go visiting the holiday cottage 

[Roxy]

Brr...chilly here too.  Single track lane is still snowed in, and farm track the same.  Our local weather station recorded a temperature of -9.8 on Monday night at 1.30am.  Funny enough I was colder the previous two nights - maybe getting immune to the bitter cold by now or something.  Windows frozen up on the inside, and like your boiler, my oil filled radiator decided to pack up on the coldest night so far!!

Hope your boilder is fixed quickly!!

[Rosemary]

Cold and snowy here - bit of a surprise this morning. The garden looks its best under four inches of snow, though. Kittens are hyper as are the dogs - kits pouncing on non-existent furry things. Fed up not getting the horse out though - even he's fed up eating, and that's unusual ina Highland. If it goes on much longer, I'm going to put him up in the 24/7 turnout field.

Going to make mincepies this afternoon.

Julie, will will the boiler man out to you!

[ballingall]

Properly snowed in this morning- well actually thats not true. The X trail got us out (much to Alex's disgust!), and we got up to the village. Then we looked at the road out the village and decided not to attempt the trip for me to get to work for a while- its a steep road out of the village, and it was littered with cars that hadn't made it up the hill!


Beth

[Daisys Mum]

Put horses out this morning and they are having a wonderful time as all the village children are sledging in their field, pigs came out long enough to eat breakfast even turned their noses up at slightly frozen brussell sprout plants,
 They were not a success this year I think that was because I planted them too close together but I had a whole trayfull as they literally fell off the back of a lorry and I hate waste.
My daughter could not get to work this morning so if you are planning to go onto the BGH at Melrose to give birth today dont bother as 3 of the Midwives could not get in today.

[doganjo]

And here  was thinking I wasn't rural!  But can I get my car up that brae??  So no Christmas hairdo, very little chicken feed and no puppy food.  Have GOT to get out tomorrow.  At a push I could feed the pups ground down adult food and have plenty of supplies for me.
Dogs loved it

[jameslindsay]

Glad your dogs can enjoy the snow Annie. I am fed up of it now. Just been in to St Andrews and at the top of our road we have a sign advertise the hotel - this morning we have a car on top of the sign!!!!! I have phoned the police for information as to how I would claim insurance and the person that owns the car had not reported the incident to the police, so now the "ball is rolling". Luckily the car does not look damaged so the driver should have been ok. Apparantly if you hit a road sign you must report to the police. Damned snow 

[Rosemary]

It's -11 here but lovely and sunny and the main roads are OK. No horses out though so Smokey's in for another day, poor boy. I think the novelty of just standing eating has worn off.

Made mincepies last night and just made the "mix" for champagne cocktails for tomorrow. Off to start the trifle and the giblet stock - hope I don't get as confused as Womble!!

[marigold]

Got the woodburning stove going full pelt but it is still baltic in the shed.
Still, the white landscape is very complimentary to my black Croads
Hope you all manage to keep warm today

[little blue]

What a handsome cockerel! Our long-tailled hamburg hen is all bedraggled after all that mud, and now snow.

Hope the boiler is soon fixed, and not too expensive!

[jameslindsay]

Kirsty your Geese are beautiful, they have settled in well.

[northfifeduckling]

our central heating burner gave up last night as well! So glad that my man is handy once he puts his mind to things! It took 3 goes taking it apart, cleaning every single part and putting it back together...He looked like my own very personal chimney sweep after and so far it works like new  

[Womble]

hope I don't get as confused as Womble!!

Me? Confused?  Whatever makes you say that?