Deep and Crisp and Even

 
The widely-forecast snow for Essex arrived overnight Monday and was topped-up by frequent snow showers all day yesterday too.  Today it is only very fine snow that is falling but the wind is bitter and blowing hard, and it's definitely another day for hunkering down at home and keeping as warm as possible.  Even the children who were out throwing snowballs earlier have retreated indoors now - with a windchill of -7 degrees I can't say I blame them.

We're fine for food for at least a week, although by the end of that time we may well be eating things we don't really like that much.  Fresh milk might prove a problem eventually - but I do have a large tub of dried milk powder which would do at a pinch.  I'm so glad I heeded the weather forecast and went for some quite serious stocking up of food on Monday, although without a freezer it's difficult to stockpile meat and things like that.  Never mind, we've got plenty of tinned and dried foods and we certainly won't starve.

Knitted hats, scarves and gloves are being worn pretty much constantly, outdoors, indoors and, in P's case, in bed too, and my charity-shop crochet shawl that I found last year has proved to be invaluable for keeping the chill off my back.  Warm food in our bellies helps enormously too and I'm going to cook a beef stew for supper this evening - that'll warm me twice, once when I've got the gas on to cook it and again when I eat it.  How is the snow in your part of the UK?

Comments

[Maureen]

I really envy you. Perhaps you'll have a white Christmas. What could be lovlier.

[sharie]

No snow here apart from a skittering of ice. That is bad enough!

Hope you are managing to keep warm and feeding well.

[Librariann]

Just down the road from you and there is LOTS of snow. Am seriously considering not going into work tomorrow. However, had to go in today, so I could show off my new knitted hat. And the knitted socks. And the knitted scarf. And the knitted mittens. They really DO keep a person warmer than bought clothes !