Snow storm

It has been snowing for five days and the last two days the snow has been so deep we have been stuck indoors. It looked pretty and festive at first, but now we are running low on food so I can't wait to get to the supermarket and stock up! 

I've never seen such extreme snow drifts before, some of them are about four feet high. Parts of the garden have patchy snow and then the patio looks as though a truck has dumped a delivery of snow there, it's a small mountain! We braved the cold earlier for a walk but we couldn't go far before the cold was biting at our toes.

We've also been feeding the few birds that have ventured out. Yesterday the resident robin was taking shelter in the honeysuckle plant, occasionally darting out to get the seeds and nuts we'd put out and today the blackbird has been for his lunch too. 

Bird prints in the snow: