6th December 2010

Woooo Hoooo and it looks as though normal service has been resumed - fingers crossed. Finally I can post pictures , send and receive e-mails and read blogs again. Oh I have missed you all.

Thank you for bearing with me .

These pictures were all taken on Saturday and as you can see we still have plenty of snow although with temperatures of at least -10 during the night a lot of it is now turning to ice .

Walking anywhere is pretty lethal . You can't walk on a lot of the paths as there are piles of snow/ice everywhere not only from the paths being cleaned but also where all the snow has fallen off roofs. As for the icicles, I've never seen them so big ....

A few streets away from where we live the snow is causing lots of damage to the old houses . Can you see the big crack on the right hand side of the window and where the windows have buckled ? Scary.

We only had two snow days from school although other schools close by were off for the full week. One day we only had 8 pupils in the class and the daft thing was that some people who live on the same street as the school were ringing in to say that they couldn't make it !!

I don't think that this is the last we will be seeing of the snow this winter and to be honest I don't really mind it . I am dreading when it starts to melt though as we'll probably have rivers running down the streets and need a boat to get to school instead of a sledge.

Oh, and that is me waving my arms at the bottom of the hill and the little dot beside me is Gabe... that was one heck of a ride .

5th December 2010

So not having a good weekend ........ even though I have a nice shiny new laptop the internet connection is pants , it could be down to the weather I just don't know . I can,t upload pictures here , Facebook , Etsy , anywhere . I can't send e-mails with attachments which means I can't send patterns to customers . I can read blogs -- just , it takes about 15 minutes to load one and even then I can't see the pictures .

GRRRRRRR.......................

On the plus side we haven't had any snow for two days , we did manage to get to a Supermarket for food shopping and we did go sledging yesterday but I can't show you any pictures .

Double GRRRRRRRR................

1st December 2010

Just a quickie to say guess what ......... thanks to my lovely hub Santa has come early . No more whirring " like an aeroplane taking off" and losing everything as the screen goes black . I HAVE A NEW LAPTOP.

Thank you Santa x

30th November 2010

So on Friday gone it started to snow .... and it snowed ..... and it snowed ..... and it snowed .



We've had temperatures of - 10c , we've had thundersnow which was both amazing and scary at the same time . I don't think I've ever heard a noise or seen lightning like that before.



The boys have been off school for two days - snow days, but are going back tomorrow - apparantly ! We are waiting for further notification on that one.



The car hasn't moved and we've had to help random people who have parked in our street and then got stuck.



None of the local shops have bread or milk , we've had no post and no binmen ( refuse collections ).



So I though it was as good a time as any to defrost the freezer.



On a computer note hub took my laptop apart and gave it a good clean - fingers crossed it holds out a bit longer.

23rd November 2010

Just a quickie to let you know I'm still here and my apologies for not dropping by your Blogs.

My laptop keeps overheating and switching itself off so all the posts I've tried to do just keep disappearing which is a complete and utter pain in the ass.

I'll be back soon though - fingers crossed ...

13th November 2010

It's a sad day :-(











They've even chopped up the log the old man used to sit on !!

1st November 2010

Jeez , I can't believe it's November already, can you ? I don't know about you but today certainly doesn't seem like November . It's been relativly warm and sunny not what you would normally associate with what I class as a winter month . Are we in winter now or is it still classed as Autumn? Then again there are still lots of green leaves on the trees and nowhere near as much leaf colour as there has been in previous years or is that just me also?



The half term holidays flew by with quite a few walks lots of playing and also quite a lot of craftiness by yours truly but I'll save that for another post. These photos were taken along the banks of the river Wear not far from my parents house .
On the afternoon we went on this walk the tide was very low and you can see that all the sludge and things that are normally under the water were all exposed . Lots of tyres and seaweed along with branches and the odd old boat.



This part of the river used to be a hive of activity , there was a pottery and a paper works and many many moons ago there was also shipyard . All that has gone now , just a few ruins here and there and a boathouse where people store jet skis . I have to admit I wouldn't particularly like to get a mouthful of this water as it isn't the cleanest!!



So now we are getting back into routine with a Halloween disco to look forward to tomorrow night and then the build up to the Christmas holidays -- it's only six weeks until they break up again .............