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icicle on the woodshed
Digging my way into the woodshed through a 4 foot pile of snow, thoughts of Cold Comfort Farm mingle with a need to watch The Shining 
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That is crazy! Still nothing more here than a touch of frost. I don’t understand it as I know Glasgow is deep with snow and I’m not that far away.
It is fierce here, it’s snowed all day too so is now even deeper!
An average of 2 inches of snow in my part of England.
Wow, that looks like what we’ve got here (actually, I think you have even more snow than we do!) But it’s expected here, in the mountains of northern Wyoming! Isn’t that an unusual amount of snow for northern Scotland?
LOL about digging your way to the woodshed making you think of Cold Comfort Farm (wait, didn’t something nasty happen in a woodshed there?) and wanting to watch The Shining! (You don’t have any topiary animals, do you?)
Stay snug and warm!
I may have misled a bit, we don’t actually have 4 foot of snow, that pile slid off the roof and over the woodshed. We have about a foot and it’s over my knees in deep places.
ha ha, yes Aga Doom saw something nasty in the woodshed. No topiary massacres here but I will be using an axe to chop wood later!!
That’s still an impressive amount of snow! (And even if a lot of that 4′ depth is due to a roof-slide, it’s an still impressive pile of it to have to dig your way through!)
I’m glad to hear there are no threatening topiaries, but I’d go check the furnace boiler pressure if I were you.
It would be nice to be snowed in for a few days so I could catch up on my reading – I’m in the
middle of another Jo Nesbo thriller at the moment. I don’t think I’d dare watch The Shining, have
only ever got half way through it before. These photos are lovely – that one of the leaf is stunning.
I’d hang that on my wall. Keep warm and cosy.
Apologies for the strange layout of the above post – the pc was doing strange things!
I’ve just been catching up on your blog and got completely lost in your beautiful snow pictures!
thank you both