Life in France

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Saturday, February 04, 2006

Why Did i have to say?

Well, after saying that the snow hadn't arrived it did...with a vengeance...It started friday evening very gently and by saturday morning there was about 20cm and the snowplough had already been up and cleared the route. By lunchtime it didn't look like it had been at all. By mid afternoon we had 50cm and our road is blocked we are marooned. The power went off at 6:30pm and stayed off for 18hrs..no power, no water as they need electric pumps, no heating as it needs electric....you get the picture? At least we have a great big woodburning stove to keep us warm. We played I spy..cuddled on the couch then made a cup of tea and went to bed!!!
There was a loud thud.. no... not me missing the bed... the giant pine tree out the front had given up the struggle against the weight of the snow and had lost 6 large branches. Luckily they didn't hit the house. They were so heavy that i couldn't pick them up!!!! Sunday morning and it has stopped snowing.. it took us an hour to dig the car out of the garage and a further one and a half hours to get to the vilage 3km away!!! Oh what a jolly jape.. hope you all had a great weekend as well...... Posted by Picasa

3 Comments:

  • At 11:47 am, Blogger Ally said…

    Reminds me of the worst winter I remember from my childhood - we were snowed in for four weeks. There was no electricity to the hamlet, the milk-lorry couldn't get in to collect the milk from the farm next door and no-one had a solid fuel stove except us. We cooked for four households and all had terrible bad stomachs because of the 'raw' milk :).

     
  • At 8:21 am, Blogger R J Adams said…

    And as you haven't blogged since Feb 5, I guess you're still in bed.

     
  • At 2:29 pm, Blogger Martin Stickland said…

    Okay, okay! You win with the snow picture! My Devon hills snow photo looks like an apple pie with a sprinkling of icing sugar on where as you photo looks like a Mister Kipplings Cheery bakewell with a good thick layer of icing!

    Not Fair!

     

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