Re: Diary summary week ending 11th January 2026

[louisa maud]

Morning folks
Here we are yet again with a new week, doesn't time fly.

It is very cold this morning, more ice on the car but thankfully no snow.

Not a lot going on, time of the year  I suppose,    taken my cards down   next  job is the decorations,  we didn't  have so much up this year, then it is back to normal

Take care everyone, keep warm

LM

[Roobarb]

The snow here was thawing well yesterday in the sunshine but a load more has tipped down overnight, more than there was originally. I'm in hibernation, doing jobs around the house including things like sorting out drawers, it's a bit like when we were in lockdown!

[Gillg]

Chilly and very cold overnight and more snow forecast for the extreme south-west tonight.   We are just on the eastern edge of the forecasted snow area, but I'm thinking that venturing out tonight for choir practice might not be a good idea - icy, slippery and possibly snowy roads could be treacherous, particularly as I have to walk through the village to the practice.  I'll wait and see how the day develops.     A friend has recently fallen and broken both the radius and the ulna bones in her arm badly, also some of the wrist bones, though the cause of the fall was not ice, but a wayward root sticking up in the path along which she was walking. 

Keep warm, everyone, and drink plenty of hot drinks.  Our woodburner is crackling away in a jolly way.  It's so large that it can heat the whole ground floor of our little cottage if we leave the room doors open.  The layout means that you can do a circular tour of the ground floor, allowed by the fact that extensions have been added twice in the house's history (though not by us).

[Caw1]

It’s a chilly day here today too… more snow overnight but only a thick icing cover is the best way to describe it.

Our log burner is a real boon too Gillg.. it warms the downstairs if we leave the living room door open. They just make you feel cosy watching the glowing logs.

Indoor day for us too, taking down the decorations… I know it should be tomorrow but need to clean the house and it’s not easy with cards etc all over the place!

Take care anyone who is venturing out as can’t imagine ending up in A & E for any reason currently… doesn’t bare thinking about!

Caroline

[Jebber]

Lovely sunny day but very cold. No snow here but a heavy frost, all the frost has gone in the front garden but still half the west facing back garden is still white.

Biscuits put out of sight to be used though the year., just a couple of mince pies left to eat.

All signs of Christmas have been put away,  cards and the few decorations I bothered with.

It’s Twelfth Night today Caroline, not tomorrow. Grandson’s birthday so easy to remember.

[Caw1]

Oh thanks Jebber! I’d got it in my mind it was tomorrow… my counting not up to spec!
All our food goodies have gone too.. few chocs but they’re hidden away so not to be tempting.
Lovely sunshine which does lift ones spirits but only ventured out to the bins and up the garden to the compost and collecting more logs to bring indoors.

Caroline

[BumbleB]

And thanks from me too for the reminder!!  All Christmas put away.  But I have a snowy scene, with snowmen playing on a sledge, in the porch now - it does resemble the outside view today.

[Gillg]

All the decorations are down now and the Christmas goodies have all been eaten, though I do have half a jar of rather nice mincemeat left which I am thinking of combining with some puff pastry to make whirls (rolled up like a Swiss roll and baked). 

Our choir director has just emailed to cancel tonight's choir practice. I must confess I'm quite relieved as the village roads and footpaths won't have been gritted and the approach to the church where we practise is a steep slope with steps at the top - a real ice hazard. (And the church will be cold....brrrr!) The next performance will be wassailing in the community orchard.  This involves stumbling across fields in the dark and cold.    January in Devon is nothing compared with our previous home in Cumbria at this time of year, however, when we were regularly snowed up.

[Caw1]

I have some mincemeat left too… but I’ve poured a good slug of brandy into it and sealed tightly so hope it’ll last!

Your trip to the choir does sound like a treacherous journey I’m not surprised you’re relieved it’s been cancelled…

supposed to have gone to local golf club ( couple miles away) to play mahjong this a/noon but the clubs closed  -
can’t say I’m sorry as they don’t put the heating on for just a few old biddies!

Due to be very cold tonight and the road out of the village in the other direction is awful so won’t be going to coffee at a friends tomorrow who lives in a village few miles away.. pity as I missed her NYDay drinks as I wasn’t well..

Think my craft room will be in for a good tidy up tomorrow what with sewing for the Christmas Fayre, then card making it’s looking rather untidy ..

Caroline