Day 2 Snowbound

Day two of my work place (an educational establishment)being closed so I'm doing bits of work from home but without phone calls to answer! What did we do before remote email access I wonder? I guess businesses just went to sleep and nothing at all happened - as this freezing spell could go on for weeks the amount of money businessse are losing must be collosal.

It is interesting to observe how animals cope in the snow - our friendly neighbourhood squirrels definitely don't like it and try to find bits of fence to sit on which aren't covered in snow (their poor little feet!). The homemade fat square that I put for the birds (which contained whole peanuts) has been of much interest to the squirrels and was last seen being dragged across the garden towards the bushes to be attacked under cover.

This sort of weather provides the added bonus of more time for reading and I'm currently devouring The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths which is a forensic murder mystery set in Norfolk (one of my lovely Christmas presents). I'm really enjoying it and having fun working out which places in Norfolk the author is describing. Do you know that Lynn is Celtic for the 'place by the pool' or 'spreading waters' and it was originally Bishop's Lynn before being 'upgraded' to King's Lynn? Facinating stuff.

Well, time to check the works email again, bye for now.....