It snowed a bit last night. The home counties, but more in Kent, were given a thick blanket of it in the early hours.   So I woke up to a lovely wintry scene.  Day-z keeps going out in it but Carmen thinks it’s not worth her while.  Here’s the view from the study window.

snowy garden

The birds are scrabbling around the feeders, trying to clear the snow.  One of them has a mini-snow plough and the others are cheering him on.  Oops!  He just drove off the edge of the bird table.  Good job he can fly.

I was going to attend the second week of presentations at uni today (my group presented last week but we were asked to support the other half of the class) but the news has advised not to go out unless you really, really have to.  I guess that leaves me stuck at home until Mirinda comes home and I go up to the station to meet her.

Yesterday I had a session at the Farnham and Alton Talking Newspaper.  For those that don’t know, it’s a charity that records the local paper onto a disc then sends it out to the visually impaired, free of charge.  There’s a small recording studio and lots of hi-tech equipment, located in a pretty grim housing estate.  Well, grim for Farnham.

There’s always three readers and an engineer and we take turns reading bits from the paper that we’ve edited.  It’s always fun and I never seem to see the same person twice!  Yesterday I was reading with Di, an ex-school teacher of English.  And I thought I was a stickler for language.  Di is worse!  She groans as she edits, despairing over the poor English she will have to read.  The other two readers kept telling her to chill out but she refused to be silenced.  Inside, I was cheering her on.  Whenever I edit, I make a few grammatical changes so I don’t sound like an idiot!

It was a slippery walk home afterwards (at about 6pm) and, a few hours later the snow started.  I don’t care what anyone says, I love the snow!