After days of yes/no/yes/no to the forecast of snow today, we’ve got up this morning to see er well nothing. All of our windows are completely covered in snow and we can’t see out at all. We tried to open the window for a better look and no go – it’s completely snowed up. So, we went to the back door and discovered that yes, it’s snowing (got that already) but it’s very wet snow and isn’t all that deep.

So, as I’m at home writing an essay today, DM took the sunshine bus with its winter tyres, a flask of coffee, a pack of sarnies, warm clothes, hat, gloves and a shovel and went to work. He has just emailed me to let me know he’s there safe and sound and that it’s snow free beyond Common Moor, a village about four miles from here. Overall we seem to have missed the worst of it – looking at the pics on the telly it’s pretty bad further east.

As soon as he left, I decided that a snow covered window was too good to miss for a photo op so here is the kitchen window. And the kitchen work surface where I made breakfast (hence the ginger jam) and sarnies for DM to take to work (hence the salt and pepper) half an hour earlier. It used to look like this and since searching my father-in-law's Flickr account looking for this photo, which I knew was there somewhere, I realised two things - firstly that he's a really good photographer and there are loads of great shots in his gallery and secondly how much more crap there is on the side in our kitchen now compared to this pic. I must try harder to do my chores!

I have a fundamental problem in the kitchen – there’s always loads of “stuff” hanging around. Often I’m not sure how it gets there or why, though I suspect a certain hubby and a couple of dogs have a good deal to do with it, but in this case I must confess to all of this clutter being my “fault” so sorry to anyone who thinks a kitchen should be a temple of cleanliness and minimalism.