Archive for December, 2009

And Now, It’s Official.

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Fresh snow fell on Christmas night.

Fresh snow fell on Christmas night.

Well, not only did the snow hang around until Christmas Day, but we also had a fresh fall that evening. The Scottish bookies won’t be happy, but there are a lot of happy kids who got to go sledging on Christmas Day. The phrase “living memory” comes to mind when trying to think of Dumfries white Christmases. We’ve been very lucky with this one and did our best to make the most of it. There’s a little bit of a thaw on now but we’re expecting more snow to follow. So the snowy theme on this site is likely to continue for a while yet.

It Might Just Be White

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

snow_carSo this is what’s been happening here this week. We also haven’t had the luke warm rain to follow and it looks like there might be a layer of snow here for the rest of the week. There may be a white Christmas this year?

I can’t remember when we had snow in late December. Probably the last time this happened was in the 1960s.

Even our garden robin was impressed and posed for this Christmas card shot.

snow_robinNow we’re hoping for scenes like this on Christmas Day. Although the weather forecast is for fog – more likely from past experience. :)

winter_scene