February 6th

Dear Heidi,

How eager I am to hear how you are getting on and what has been happening in the San Blas islands!
It makes a strong contrast to our winter weather! We have now about a meter of snow, it is still snowing and apparently this is more snow than we have had since 1967!

Now, Pappa is away for two weeks, getting himself a jolly good medical E U test! I am off to fetch young W on Thursday, and will be back after the weekend. So we might not be easy to get hold of. Just so you know. D will be here, but working ( still, in all this weather!). Nothing much else is happening, because of the snow and ice. We are at that stage where I drive to get the mail from the bottom of the lane, because the ice is so bad. Even then the car slides down, and I have to turn around at the bottom and come back up to get to the mail box. Sometimes D can’t actually get his car up the lane at all.

I am reading lots of books and doing a little needlework, and keeping the fire in day and night. Infact on Sunday, when it was sunshiny ( and minus 13’C) we all three turned out the garage, tidied and swept and sorted through all the junk of empty sacks, bottles to be recycled, and things just pushed in quickly, you know how it gets in there! Then Pappa brought over three new cages of logs for the fire.
So that was a job worth doing, and it was lovely to be out in the sunshine, but I must admit to being super glad we don’t have the hens this winter!! Thinking of which, we often see the squirrel now, and he is frequently at the bird table or feeders, whilst the birds seem to enjoy the nuts I have put out for him in a squirrel feeder. Hmm. Typical!

Well darling girl, that is it for now. Sleep tight and lots of love from
Your own mamma.