This has been a wonderful winter. I can’t remember when we last had such a sustained period of cold weather. The snow is now falling and this time it looks as if we might get a reasonable dump of it rather than the light scattering that normally comes and goes within a few hours. Ironically the kids are off sledging at Xscape which is an indoor ski slope.
The sky feels as if it is closing in on us though it isn’t getting darker. Occasionally I see someone walking along the pavement the other side of the hedge in the front garden. Give it a couple more hours and there will be hardly anyone. Also cars are still going past.
Sat here in front of the fire I’m facing a near perfect Sunday afternoon. Anne is doing some baking in the kitchen and in a short while I’ll be cooking a Delia Smith’s recipe chille con carne. Pretty much the same as most other chilles I imagine.
This weather provides an absolutely perfect excuse to sit down and write. To some amongst us tapping away at the PC probably constitutes idleness but they have to believe this is not the case. In fact it is absolutely essential to have uninterrupted time at it.
This the weather you always deam about that gets you stranded in a pub or a country hotel. Unable to make it home for a whole week, running up a huge bar tab and dreading the moment that the snowplough makes it through to announce that the road is now clear!
The snow has stopped now but it will be back. It strikes me that my recent posts, be they prose or poetry, have very much had a wintery theme. If not winter certainly an element of bleakness. It will be interesting to see how this changes as the year progresses. I’m not naturally a person with a negative outlook.
I told a Chinese colleague of mine today that we were having snow over here – this is her response: “Oh, I like snow, I have more than 6 years not seen snowing, I remember when I was little girl, every winter it will snowing, since parents house was in the small village, surrounded by group mountains, and there are lots of Chinese bamboo tree in the front yard of house , they covered by the white snow and the bamboo tree lowered it’s tree top; and also of course the mountains and trees are covered with white & crystal snow; and also also also I remember my sisters and brother with me are come out from the house and taking the snow ice from the tree leaf to eat……. And my mom are shouting me to bring my sisters and brother into the house, some time she is making the snacks for us……Oh , my God, your topic bring me back to my childhood, I love it very much, thank you…. And I missing my family now, I should call them now, since they are 12hrs drive from me
Comment by Philip — February 2, 2009 @ 8:04 pm
This is a lovely comment. Can you tell her I think she is a beautiful person?
Comment by admin — February 2, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Of course – she’ll be totally thrilled.
I’ve stuck a video of me and Ben on a sledge from 2005 on You Tube tonight for her to look at when she gets into work tomorrow!
Comment by Philip — February 2, 2009 @ 8:27 pm