All you brainy followers would be aware of this, but this old **** has just come to the conclusion that, every time we get a full moon in winter the weather turns colder & we are more likely to get snow. This is the third full moon that it has happened with us, so the penny has dropped for me. Started Monday and here we are Thursday morning & still small flurry of snow greeted me at 7am, plus the fact that temperatures went down in the night to minus 5C. I think yesterday morning was the worse as Tuesday saw a slight thaw & the snow ( all 4″ of it) began to melt, but in the late evening it snowed again, just a dusting. But then it froze overnight, causing the water under the snow to turn to ice with a layer of snow on top of it. This made our single track road difficult at first light, but that was soon resolved by the snow plough being up just after nine that morning. Although we do not get it at weekends the service the council provide (especially compared to down south) is first rate this is why we never get stuck up the glen very often . My problem is they do not clear our 50yd steep driveway & with the underlying ice it took me twice as long to clear it, in the end I was so knackered I only did two tracks wide enough to get the car tyres on solid ground, must be old age slowing me down. 🙂
I wrote last blog about the wonderful Snowdrops & what joy they are this time of the year, yesterday morning I went out & they looked dead after the heavy frost, but sure enough back they bounced as you can see.
Added a few shots from the last few days.
