Snow Day

I think that's what they call them - in places that really have the kind of snow that means people can't go anywhere - snow days . . .  Had a snow 'half-day' today.  This was the scene at 10.49am this morning, it did stop snowing by dinnertime, but came home anyway, while the going was good!

Didn't actually snow much this afternoon, but it is freezing (which just makes the snowy roads more treacherous).  Nice misty evening views across the valley:

And now we have heating again*, we can take the time to appreciate it!

* We've had a couple of weeks of intermittent heating - came back from a couple of days away on Monday 15 November to find that our oil-fired boiler was broke (kept blowing fuses on the control panel) - managed to get a heating engineer to come out on Thursday 18, he fitted a new control box and solenoid and we had heat again - all was well until Sunday 21 when the boiler repeatedly 'locked out' - had a boiler service booked for Thursday 25 anyway so made do with our plug-in radiators until then - Thursday 25 the engineer replaced the oil pump, but it still wouldn't work - later that day though we had a phone call from the engineer to say he'd realised he hadn't fitted it properly - back today, all fixed, heat!  Hoping it lasts this time!