The day we woke up to snow! Whilst everyone else seemed to be delighting in the beauty of the white blanket and posting endless picturesque picture’s, we snuggled further under the duvet wondering when it would be warm enough to get up and make a cup of tea. How wonderful that Zoom calls can be sans video. I never imagined that one day I would be attending a religious service ‘live’ from the comfort of my bed! Nor that when I tried to get dressed, my fingers would be so cold I would not be able to open the plastic bag containing my underwear! One of the best tips we were given, which I may have mentioned before, is keeping all clothing in vacuum plasticbags to stop the damp penetrating through. Luckily R, up and about before me, had warmed his hands on the teapot and came to my rescue!
The snow had stopped falling by the time we had enough layers on to venture outside and LB looked rather magical shrouded in white. We trod carefully, not wanting to slip on any icy patches, and had not ventured far before a Chinese lady pushing a pram, indicated that she had found a mobile phone on the ground. Speaking very little English, she was keen to give the phone to us to sort the problem of how to find its owner. The phone was locked but the screenshot was of a school timetable with a girl’s name so I thought if all else failed I could ring round the local schools tomorrow. R thought there might be somewhere to leave phone at fire/police station so he wandered off to speak to them whilst I waited with phone to see if the owner came looking for it. To keep warm I did my Joe Wicks routine which must have looked a bit strange but no one commented! Eventually R returned having had no luck speaking to anyone so we continued on our walk hoping the phone might ring. We found a large park we had never walked through before and there was an amazing snowman with a snow dog! Returning eventually back to the boat I noticed a missed call on the phone by an ’emergency’ contact. Although the phone was locked it allowed me to ring this number and thus reunite the phone with its very grateful young owner whose emergency contact was her father. Relief all round.
So a quiet afternoon and evening reading the papers, watching an episode of Finding Alice, which I am not too sure about, and raising a glass of sherry to mum! Once again, like last week, we attended our church Songs of Praise and it was heart warming listening to people’s stories of faith and the songs they had chosen and why. Meanwhile outside it’s still trying to snow although the weather app shows a big round sun shining all day tomorrow. We can but hope!
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