Winter weather (part 4...)

Well the weather decided to show that the last bit of snow was just a practice really, and over the weekend we got rather a lot of the stuff.  Thankfully, its yet to turn to ice so the roads aren't too bad, but the pavements aren't much fun!

It did a bit of damage to the garden - I've got another cracked pane of glass in the greenhouse from the weight of snow, the netting protecting my garlic in the raised bed collapsed under the weight, and my strawberry plants are now warming up in the greenhouse!



I also had to dig out the dwarf Narcissi that I planted under the new turf as a spring surprise for the wife, and at one stage I thought we were going to lose some of our solar lights under the snow!  :-)



But from William's perspective, the snow meant we could make something!  He didn't want to build a snowman ("It will melt" was his response to that suggestion - I think he's been traumatised by watching The Snowman and the Snowdog on TV!) but we settled on an igloo, and with the aid of an old washing up bowl to make the bricks, I think we did a pretty good job...



(I will admit though that the roof didn't survive the weight of the new snow overnight!)