After a few feeble attempts earlier this winter, the winter finally arrived on Tuesday.

Initially we had about 3 inches of snow, but a further 7 inches arrived today making everything smooth and glistening in the intervals of bright sunshine between the ‘white-outs’.

Fortunately we don’t have any guests due today and, as we didn’t need to go out, we have stayed warm and cosy most of the day only making brief trips out to feed the birds, brush snow from the fruit cage roof and to make sure the chickens are ok.