Wishing You A Merry Christmas

Our Snow arrived on Wednesday and within about an hour we had about 20cm of snow!
Unfortunately our boiler decided to pack up at the same time!!
I rushed out or shall I say trudged out, in all the snow, to get a couple of heaters and several hot water bottles.
It seems a lot of boilers have suffered in this cold spell and the earliest date we could get someone to look at it was the 29th of December.
So the last few days we have been wearing hats, coats and scarfs indoors with hot water bottles stuffed up our jumpers!
Then yesterday my husband continued to try and fix it and miraculously it worked, although we are not sure for how long.
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year without travel disruptions or boilers breaking down.
M x

Time To Paint

We thought the snow was going to skirt us by, but on Wednesday morning it was quiet, sounds muffled by the blanket of snow.

The next excitement was finding out school was closed, the children's and the school I work at.

So we were out early to the local park, wrapped up, like a pass the parcel , including me with three pairs of woolly socks!

Here is our Snowman playing football , the goalie otherwise known as "Snowlie".

Can you spot the snowball?

I can tell you, it took quite a lot of throwing to get that shot!

The afternoon was spent trying to get warm again and drying hat, scarves & gloves which were strewn over all the radiators in the house!

I wanted to make the most of this bonus day at home so I got my paints out and painted this landscape from ideas in my sketchbook.

I hope your having a good week and keeping warm.

A Walk In The Snow And Time To Stitch

Step Into The Olive Grove

Trees In Snow

Kenilworth Casle In the Snow

Views On Our Walk

Today we had no school and no work.

We awoke to heavy snow and the children were so excited.

So here are some pictures of our walk around Kenilworth Castle.

I took lots of pictures and I'm sure I will use quite a few as ideas for my sketch book.

I was excited because I could spend some time on my sewing.

For this piece of work I went back to my sketch book, drawings of an olive grove from our holiday.

Quite a contrast to our white landscape.

Hope your having a good week and keeping warm.