Thursday 5 February 2009

Just our luck!

Not that I'm complaining about the wall to wall sunshine or anything, but trust us to miss out on the first real winter for years.

Every winter I'd be heard to bemoan the fact that there was only a piddling amount of snow. In fact last winter there wasn't any, and the year before, it snowed, a little bit, one Friday lunchtime as school was getting out. It had more or less stopped when we got home.

Bill and the boys made a very small snowman two winters ago. That's all we had snow for. If I recall, they had to use snow from the front garden as well as the back.

And now, we're thinking about all our friends having snowball fights, and building snowmen, and we're not there.

I can't even complain that it's too hot here, becasue while it's hot, it doesn't get above 33, so it's not unbearable, just perfect for getting in the pool. But it's February! And I'm not used to this yet - I still feel like winter.

We need to book our travel for July. And find somewhere to stay in Edinburgh & Bath. No home of our own to rely on for a few years.

In other news, the gatitos have settled in well. Quirk is giving us serious cold shoulder treatment, because we brought these two noisy playful things into her calm, sofa-bound existence.

Oma and Grandad were here for 3 weeks. We didn't actually do much, just hung out and enjoyed the sun. We did a little touristing, spent a day at the beach. Next year we might get a little more adventurous.

The boys go back to school a week on Monday. Thomas's belated birthday party is this Saturday - his friends are coming over for a swim, a scavenger hunt, then pizza and cake. Bill is away up at the site, so he's missing a birthay party for the first time. We need to take photos.

In fact, this blog is serioulsy lacking in photos, isn't it? I'd better do something about that. Thomas got a camera for his birthday, and he'll be updating his own blog at TFTD2001 when I remind him!

Tomorrow feels like the first day in weeks that we haven't had something to get up for in the morning, we need to buy school shoes, and a few supplies for Saturday's party, and that's it, until some friends come over in the afternoon. No alarms to set. But we do need to get into practice for school going back. Eek!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ach, there's actually pretty much no snow in Edinburgh. You'd be pissed off with the Southerners if you were here, so better you're pissed off in warm weather than pissed off in the freezing cold.

Kxx

Alison said...

OK, thanks, I feel better now!

Anonymous said...

Us southerners have to put up with no snow every year! It's great for the kids to see the real thing, and the grown-ups. No school for two days, running out of salt for the roads and skidding all over the place. We dug out sledges that we bought 3 years ago but have had to leave in the garage and shot down the hill in the nearby fields. People are now hoping that we'll have a significant summer to match ...

Looking forward to your photos Tom!

Auntie M x

Soleien said...

Hey, maybe we can send you some snow from way up north... We got 50 cm in one day, and that stopped the traffic even here. Up until now though the skiing course Erik and Ingrid go to had to run on 'fake snow'!
Hope you had a great birthdayparty, Thomas! Looking forward to seeing pictures.