{"id":869,"date":"2013-01-21T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:58:31","slug":"snow-like-proper-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=869","title":{"rendered":"Snow, like, proper snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the view we woke up to this morning, proper snow even by my standards, enough to make me with, as I do, briefly once every few years, that I owned a pair of skis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-873\" title=\"PICT0010\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0010.jpg\" alt=\"the snowy view\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0010-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I even saw that view, Elmo took a picture of me and the cat in bed this morning, for no  other reason than that it&#8217;s cute. We&#8217;ve renamed her Kelele, which means  noise, din or racket in Swahili (thanks, Lea!) because she complains  pretty much all night of being hungry, although she&#8217;s quiet as a mouse  most of the day. Also, it shortens nicely to something phonetically akin  to Lily and that&#8217;s a pretty name for everyday use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PICT0009\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00091.jpg\" alt=\"Me and Lele in bed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s really a lovely cat, very easy-going and low-maintenance, if still a bit panicky when the bed&#8217;s being put up or let down. Oddly, she usually tries to run *under* the scary bed before panicking and running out again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" title=\"PICT0012\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0012.jpg\" alt=\"cabin in the snow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0012.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0012-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the cabin looks like in this much snow. It&#8217;s still melting a little on the roof, presumably because we haven&#8217;t finished putting the ceiling up yet, so there are airways up there through the dangling bits of insulation. I should really get round to finishing that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" title=\"PICT0015\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00151.jpg\" alt=\"snowy view across the valley\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00151.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00151-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view across the valley is particularly beautiful now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" title=\"PICT0020\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00201.jpg\" alt=\"Elmo walking in the snow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00201.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT00201-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went out this morning to do our bit shoveling snow off the road so we could get out to go to Sheffield this evening, but it had already been done. Might need doing again later, mind you, more heavy snow is forecast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-872\" title=\"PICT0018\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0018.jpg\" alt=\"Snow-cat\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0018.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT0018-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made a snowman and then amended it into a snow cat. The forecast is cold for the foreseeable future, so it&#8217;ll likely be the sentry at the top of the steps for a while. Perhaps I&#8217;ll buy those skis on ebay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the view we woke up to this morning, proper snow even by my standards, enough to make me with, as I do, briefly once every few years, that I owned a pair of skis. 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