Snowed Under

My little patch of Dartmoor has been under snow for a week now.

As it's become icier and icier I have left my daughter to board at her school for a couple of
nights, and Esteemed Partner is stranded in Ashburton, his ancient Corsa sitting outside my door with a flat battery.

I am marooned, in the middle of nowhere, in a five bedroom house, all alone, surrounded by snow and ice. It's wonderful!

It did cross my mind that if I slipped and broke my leg while getting the horses in, I would die alone in the dark in the blizzard. So I trod carefully.

But otherwise there is suddenly all the time in the world to get on with things. Such as sorting out a picture for next year's personalised Christmas card. I've got real snow, and haven't put away our Christmas decorations yet, so there is still a variety of props easily to hand.

For our 2012 Christmas card I had struggled, as, because the winter had been snowless, I had no new snowy family pictures for VistaPrint to use. Instead I used one of our house glowing in the dark, under stars, looking a bit like a pumpkin. And for my advertising website, normally I would have used a summery sunny picture of the house, but, no surprises, we didn't have any proper sun during 2012 either!