3.01.2025 Snow.

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  Friday 3rd 33F/0.6C. Snow and icy roads is causing chaos over parts of Denmark. The all too familiar motorway closures due to accidents. Calls for winter tires to become compulsory. Many are lulled into complacency by the lack of of a "real winter" these days. No doubt leading to poor, winter driving skills. Simply due to a lack of direct experience. 

 Up at 6.20 after an even quieter night. I was trying to work out where to run cables for the new kitchen units. Not really my job. The electrician will have infinitely more practice than I have. I am just trying to minimize the disruption and effort involved. If only to avoid unsightly conduit o the kitchen walls. 

 Fortunately there is little involved in getting cables into the top of the airing cupboard from the consumer unit. Which saves me taking down the boarded, front hall ceiling. I designed for that to be easy but it is still tedious work dismantling it board by board. Getting the cables further on is where things become more complicated. The open stairwell, a step in the landing and the balcony room dividing wall don't help. 

My lower back hurts again. Lifting the display case yesterday?  Why do I keep getting a bad back? Too many hours on the computer chair? No walks or rides?

 8.00  62F/16C in the room. I have lit the stove. Still pitch black outside. I had to turn on the outside lights. Just to see we have had some overnight snow. More of a dusting than any real depth. Probably no more than a centimeter thank goodness. I am getting too old. To clear a hundred meters of deep or wet snow from the drive. 

 9.00 I took a snap out of the window. Now I am going for a walk. 

 9.20 Just a loop around the neighbours' drives. The snow crunching under my feet. Hard packed on the corner of the road but clearer on the straights. It must have been salted earlier. The bare asphalt was dry. The icy cold wind attacking my hands. Every time I stopped to take a photograph with my phone. Though none worth sharing.

 10.45 70F/21C in the room. The sun has come out. Making it worthwhile to scrape the snow from the lean-to greenhouse. The snow blocks the light. Making it dark indoors. I use a window squeegee on a 2m wooden pole. The sun will help to warm the greenhouse. Enough to speed up the snow melting on its gently sloping, glass roof. Saving me a lot of effort in snow clearing. Which in turn will warm the house slightly. While simultaneously helping the logs to further dry out against the house wall. I can also turn off the indoor lights. Not a bad return on 15 minutes of exercise.

 12.00 The wind is picking up and the sky is more cloudy. I ought to go shopping after lunch.

 14.30 Much too late I have moved the car along the drive and into the sunshine. Now I am waiting for the windows to clear. There must have been about 2cm of snow last night. Judging by the quantity I removed from the car.

 15.15 Returned adequately laden with groceries to see me through the weekend. The roads weren't very clear. Two tracks in each lane and a broad swathe of dirty snow in the middle of the twin tracks. 

 Dinner was cheese on toast. With halved tomatoes. As is customary in these parts. The new oven is much faster at grilling.

 

 

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