Phew. Sits down. Pours drink.

[nineveh_uk]

Finished work for 2011, hurrah! Seventeen days of leisure await. The week has been grimly crammed with stuff that I absolutely needed to get done before leaving (as opposed to the stuff that merely needed to be done, which was long ago allowed to fall off the back of this particular lorry), but it is done, and hopefully fewer people will be around next week creating work for me to come back to, and almost no-one the week afterwards. I have done all my Christmas shopping (must finish making one present) and I now have a few days to sort things out at home and pack (must make lists!) before heading north mid-week, exact date subject to Weather. For the sake of being able to sit back and relax, I am even able to forgive this morning's forecast snow for not arriving.

Comments

[white_hart]

There was snow on parked cars in Kidlington at 7:15am. Very jealous of you being finished already, though my remaining three days will really be more like two given that most of Tuesday is taken up with Christmas lunch and however much of a struggle it has been to get to it I think the 12-day break is long enough really.

[nineveh_uk]

We managed snow on the windscreens and a sprinkle on the grass at the same time, but it was melted by the time I left home. I was glad that it had rained off when I got home so I didn't have to go out and scrape it before it froze.

Hope you have an easy - or at least not people interrupting you with new stuff, my bete noire - next week.

[antisoppist]

Hurrah!

I don't want snow, at least not until Thursday when I don't have to go anywhere for 2 weeks. We had some visible on the hills and Land Rovers were arriving from the outer reaches with snow on the bonnet but here it's been rain.

[nineveh_uk]

As I am mostly going to be there, I am quite happy for the snow to be restricted to the Frozen North. As long as it is the right bits. But I would not have objected to 5cm in the park tomorrow morning.