We were forecast some bad weather over the next couple of days and as we had a funeral to attend this morning, 50 miles away in Killin. I was up at 630 to see approx. 4″ of snow. Went out armed with snow shovel & cleared a track all the way down to the bottom of our steep hill some 500 yards, turned round to do another track a car width up the hill, only to find that I could hardly see where the first clearance had been because of the blizzard that was now falling. Very upset we couldn’t get to the funeral, but I do not think we would have made it.
Came in all hot & sweaty, jumped in a bath & by the time I was out , another two inches had fallen. How I wish my camera was back from repair ( another 10 days & a couple of hundred pound before that happens), but in a lull in the weather I went out & fed the birds & took a few shots with my old camera, so not excellent but hope they will show what it is like.
I do not think I have ever seen such a dark angry sky heading towards us, so I knew we were about to get another bucket load of snow & sure enough it hasn’t stopped for the last hour adding yet another inch.
The shots below are as follows,
1/ our drive which I had cleared an hour before with the snow shovel, burnt some calories , but really a waste of time.
2/ Rod reads my blog, so I thought I ought to include a photo of his house in the snow, very wise not to be up here at the moment.
3/ The Robin followed me around until I gave it some food.
4/The dark clouds approaching with yet more snow. The photo really does not do justice to just how dark the sky was.
