There's snow way down

It snowed during the night. Quite a lot. We didn't realise how much until we had to clear the drive.

Our back garden and Cyril the Buddha

After breakfast, we all got changed and went and cleared the drive. Five of us shovelling and it was still really hard work.

Balaclava Boys, Moo and the height of fashion and Hy-Hope where we sledged.

Then we drove to a local farm where we sledged for a couple of hours. It was cold, especially on the face. There was hardly anyone there so we had the slope to ourselves. We had four different sledges. Two round tray ones, one plastic long one and a proper wooden sledge.

Huffle and Moo, Smallest and Moo and Moo with a face full of snow

Moo, Smallest and Huffle

Small was up and down and up and down. Occasionally coming to say hello, sometimes waving at us, but mainly just got on with it, having the time of his life.

Huffle, Me, Small and Smallest

Smallest stayed with us, sometimes sledging with Moo or Huffle but mainly by himself. No fear. That was until he almost hit someone. He was sledging, a boy was in his way, Smallest shouted, WATCH OUT, the boy ignored him so Smallest had to bail and I think it knocked his confidence a bit after that.

Beautiful view, Small and his choc coin, Smallest and his choc coin, Huffle

Moo was by far the oldest person there (and she was proud of that fact). She was up and down, falling over, landing in trees, rolling, loving every minute of it.

In a heap in the trees!

The only reason we stopped was because by the time we were thinking of leaving there were too many people and it was hard to avoid them.

Huffle, Smallest, Small and Moo

I am not a great fan of sledging, so I went up and down a few (maybe more) times. I fell off, I went down once with Moo, I tried each of the different sledges. The time Moo and I went down we laughed most if the way, we hurt our bums and we stopped at the bottom and took a photo. Then we got up and turned around as someone was about to career straight into us. Moo got out of the way but I went the wrong way and ended up sitting on the person (don't know if it was a boy or girl). I bruised my back but I'm sure his leg was properly squashed!!!

Me and Moo just after we crashed and just before we got ran over

Moo and me

Me wiping Moo's nose

All in all a very fun couple of hours. Especially when we stopped for Hot Chocllate, Hot Apple Cider and Coffee. Oh and the time we stopped for Chocolates.

Huffle and his hot choc, Smallest with his Hot Apple Cider, Small with his hot choc, Moo with her coffee and Me with my hot choc

Moo trying to catch a helicopter, Huffle walking back up the slope, smallest trying a short-cut but finding it too deep (he had to be rescued by Moo) and Small and Huffle climbing the hill

We came home, got warm and dry and had some lunch. Huffle sorted out travel stuff while the boys played on the Wii and Moo and I tidied up. The house was like a bomb site. We tidied and swept the lounge. Cleared up the kitchen and put all the coats and gloves,hats etc away.

Huffle and I started packing. Tomorrow we are off to New York. I have no idea whether we have wifi when we get there so if there is no blog for four days, you know why.

Moo got the boys some dinner while Huffle and I popped to the shop for essentials for our trip and potatoes for Moo and the Boys.

When we came back they watched TV. Moo got our dinner ready and we ate. The boys went to bed. We played cards and ate nice things.

 

 

 

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