Day 26 - Snowed in...

I am still feeling drained. John says I should be proud of myself that I got to this stage. And I am. But somehow I have the feeling this is as far as it will go. Well, I won't say any more, I don't want to jinx things. So back to the mundane for now.
Had the car booked in for a service today. Just as I was wondering how I would get out of the driveway and up the small hill at the top of the road the garage rang me - the two mechanics had been unable to make it in to work, and the receptionist had only gone in herself to cancel appointments. So was it okay if we rescheduled? Oh, yes, indeed, that suited me down to the ground. With the school closed and the driveway all iced up we haven't been out of the house, apart from my exciting excursion (I know, I'm mentioning it again!) yesterday, and it would hardly have been fun having the girls in tow whilst waiting for the car to be done.
Luckily I got some essentials on the way home yesterday and today we are battoning down the hatches - the fire is lit 24/7 and we have enough provisions in the freezer to last at least a week. Everyone I know is sitting it out, mainly at home, only very few, including John, make it in every morning... because he walks to work. It takes him a little longer than usual but he doesn't mind, he loves to walk anyway. Funny, it is one of my least favourite pasttimes. Give me a horse or even a donkey and I will do the distance 3 times over. But a lovely walk in a green leafy forest is the next worst thing to waking up in a pool of sweat after a 3-hour nightmare. Well, perhaps not quite as bad as being mauled by a lion. But close.
Anyway, it is all irrelevant in this arctic spell, as they are calling it, there is hardly a leafy forest in sight - nor a lion, for that matter. I saw a cyclist fly past me yesterday and I literally shook my head at him (or her, it was so mummified I could not make out what it was) - cycling in the snow, s/he must have been - wait for it - cyco!
We are fed up with watching DVDs for now, so we have resorted to arts and crafts and are making a calendar for granny and grandad. So far we have 4 different snow scenes. We'd better close our eyes and try and think of spring or the calendar will contain no seasons whatsoever. Watch this space...