Snowing in London

Written 11th of May, about sometime back in April.

Ok, I have gotten super slack with the blog thing, and there are tonnes of things I should probably put in here.
So lets start with when Mum and Brian came to visit.

It snowed. On their last day.

We woke up in the morning, and looked out the window, and there were huge white fluffy flakes up to the size of 20 cent pieces floating down, and a few inches of snow had gathered on the ground. This is a BIG DEAL in London - sometimes in winter it snows just a little, but rarely does it gather on the ground. So it was on with the ski gear and out into it for us!!
We built a snow bunny, with squished raspberries for eyes, so he looked a little like an albino, and also a little scary.

And then we made snow angels, and caught snowflakes on our tongues, threw snowballs at mum, walked down to the Thames and looked at it, and then had to pack up and take Mum and Brian to dover to get on the boat.


I was paranoid about them being late, as I usually am, and had read the traffic reports saying there were problems en route. So we hurried on out to Dover, thinking we would be able to drop Mum and Brian and then go and have a coffee with them before we left. But there was nowhere at the boat we could go really, they didn't let anyone in who was not going on the boat. So we left them there, Mum had a few sniffles, and off we went.

On the way back, decided to stop in to a National trust property, called Igtham Mote. Its a 13th century moated manor house. It was just gorgeous driving down the country lanes with everything all snowy and beautiful.

Winter wonderland - in the middle of April for Chrissakes!!

So that was the end of another weekend. Back to the Grind.