A white Christmas is coming!

Snow, snow and more snow! Which means cancelled and delayed trains, icy footpaths and being snowed in at home for two days! Not such a bad thing seeing as they were work days ;) The weather man had been predicting snow for over a week with none in sight, so when they said we would get heavy snow overnight I of course didn't believe them. Oh how wrong I was, a good 10inches or so fell over the next day or two as it snowed constantly. Our grocery delivery truck couldn't get through and we couldn't go anywhere in the car as it was snowed in, so it was a trek to the supermarket on foot to stock up on some food. I was surprised to see people buying up like the world was ending! We were lucky to get one of the last loaves of bread and cartons of eggs, some milk and some frozen goodies as everyone had trolley loads of food and were buying up big!

A few days later the snow began to melt and the slush ran away and things got back to normal, until last night. Got home and we had a little dusting of snow, but woke up this morning thinking it felt very bright only to open the windows and see a good 4 or 5 inches of snow in the backyard. Our cheeky neighbourhood foxes were out and about looking for food and were up to their knees in the snow. We headed out for a walk today as cabin fever had set in and this is what we found!

If you look closely in this one you can see the fox on top of the neighbours back shed.

The snow from a couple of weeks ago.

Neighbours down the road made a slightly freaky igloo!

Preparing for Christmas....testing out Christmas cookie recipes. Unfortunately did this a little too early and they are now all gone, had to make a second batch!

The second batch of cookies on the tree...my first real Christmas tree! Some remnants of which are still in the back seat of the car. It may have had a slightly traumatic journey from the store ;)

Snowy Wimbledon

Wimbledon Park....not a womble in sight :(

Some of the local kids have made these giant snowballs which are littering the park.

We also discovered this dodgy snowman, it's the one on the right!

Swans waiting for some bread in the icy water.

Frozen lake in Wimbledon Park

Wimbledon Village

Wimbledon Park Golf Course

Another 10cm is forecast for today so though we would de-snow

the car so it's not completely iced over!

Night snow

More snow!!!

Tuesday morning we woke up to a blanket of white fluffy snow! And by last night more had fallen and we had a good 4 or 5 inches. The car is snowed in (covered in snow plus the road snow bound), the footpaths are icy and the buses are struggling to get up the hill. But amazingly the tube is still running.....trust me it's a miracle! So unfortunately we still have to go to work, no snow days for us. But more heavy snow is expected tonight so fingers crossed for tomorrow....here are a few pics from the last couple of days.

Morning walk to the tube in our street.

Frozen lake in St James's Park.

In the park near work at lunchtime.

St James's Park, with the building where I work in the background.

Our car, second from the left.

Sun coming up this morning over Wimbledon.

This morning's walk to the tube.