Snow in the time of Covid

Well, happy New Year, all bloggy friends and silent readers. We watched the New Year concert from Vienna, which was lovely but rather sad, with no one in the audience. They did have a Zoom audience though, whose applause was broadcast. 

I'm NOT going to start another quilt till I've sorted out the archives, but while the concert was on I did fish out these extremely crazy patches I made last year when I was waiting for instructions from the friends I was about to make quilts for (and before I'd Googled how you're supposed to make crazy patches). I laid them out to cheer myself up. Fabric! I might possibly do something with them but not till... etc. 

In the afternoon we went with the Edinburgh family up to the nearby school and they did some sledging. The snow was rather thin but it was icy and so

they could really slide

quite a long way. 

Then we had the children for the rest of the day, which was nice. 

Last night it snowed again. This morning we took down all the decorations because we've frankly had enough of this fairly non-Christmas season. I deeply dislike undecorating, but it's done now so that's good. 

And then we went out for a walk on the nearer golf course. If it's still snowy tomorrow, we might go up to the other one, the hilly and lovely one that we walked on when it was closed during lockdown. Surely golfers don't golf in snow? I don't know why we didn't think of it today. It would be so good to visit it again. 

But it was nice walking in the sunshine (though quite tiring, plodding cautiously. This is not the time to end up in hospital with a broken limb).

The allotments were empty. Still, the days are getting longer. We're coming for you, spring. Just not very fast. And there's a lot of virus about, according to the news.