Well, we are perfectly at ease boiling up snow for water and washing ourselves and our dishes in a teaspoonful; but this is a new challenge successfully completed - being in the middle of of putting together a dish of spoonbread when the electricity goes off, and IMMEDIATELY coming up with the solution: "No problem - I can fry it in spoonfuls."
Also Remembering Where We Left The Torches.
The electricity came on again after two minutes.
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Just keep a candle or two burning. (So you can find the torches)
A mobile phone makes an excellent torch
A laptop is even better; but you do need to be charged up.
I see the blog has switched to its winter header!
Yes. Livy did it. I wonder if I should flounder up the drive through the snow and take another picture, with snow rather than last winter's hoar frost. Probably I should, when the sun comes out.
Do you have snow shoes?
No. But funnily enough I was discussing them with Livy only yesterday. Does one have to make them oneself, one wonders? Or should I have bought some in Canada when I was there?
Yes, in Aviemore. But these look somewhat fancier than the cheap and cheerful ones I have seen in the US which really do look like plastic tennis rackets you tie to your shoes
http://www.sledges.co.uk/
I thought one had to make a willow frame and then tie the skins of dead animals to them.
Marvellous web site, by the way. Lots of useful transport for getting things down the drive when the car is in the snow at the top.
I love the sledge web site - I would love to have one of the wood ones for shopping. On a more realistic note- does anyone here have personal experience of those shoe chains and are they any good?
They use them all the time in Finland according to our correspondent. (Roy, who was there last winter.) He fell over four times without them and thinks they are probably a good thing. I too want one or more sledges. (We have one already but it is in the attic.) I particularly like the farmer's sledge; something like that would be good for hauling logs around the wood even in summer.
One might try Urban crampons
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