Snow!

Kids are all excited, schools are making contingency plans and we have had quite a lot of the white stuff coming down.  Daughter in law came to collect gorgeous grandson and slithered her way up the hill in her little car.  Though at the time I texted her at work in  Littlehampton there was no snow and she drove into it coming to us.  DS3 has, quite madly, walked off down the hill to do his fitness training.  If it's not on when he gets there then he will walk home again and that will have to do.  But the weather in our part of the world is often quite mad, being over the hill makes a huge difference - we had snow, a couple of miles away they hadn't.

My car is an old automatic and I am not driving it anywhere I don't have to, tomorrow.  If the schools are open then I will walk; if not, I will cover some books and quilt.  Dh will work from home.  He kindly collected some milk for me on the way home and ds2 commented that there was a huge queue at  the big Asda and it took him a long time to get out of the car park - he'd only popped in to use the loo LOL.

Speaking of snow, if you like cute snowmen, Bunny Hill Designs are doing a block of the month for this coming year, beginning now.  Please visit them here  http://bunnyhilldesigns.com

The British Quilt List on Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BQL/ ) have another series of challenges this year.  They have so far done bags and a perpetual calendar and this blog (http://bqlbagblog.blogspot.com/ ) showcases the lot.  You can spend an enjoyable amount of time going through the various bags and calendar pages.  The next set of challenges is more a series of suggestions but in any case the amount of expertise on this list makes it a very useful place to be and somebody usually knows the answer to any question you may have.  And the inhabitants are nice, the mods efficient and pleasant and the whole thing is run by Kandy Newton.  So if you don't belong, might I suggest you join - another pleasant activity on a snowy day.

Dh has just come in to say it is still snowing so I have sent him out with a camera - there may well be a plethora of snowy photos in blogland ere long......