Oof! That will feel a mite nippy when you’re out with the girls. I bet they will love it 
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One of our crofters has been along in his tractor and cleared the roads of some of the bigger drifts but I’m sure they’ll soon re-form in this wind. Our road isn’t too bad but the main road that runs east/west has big drifts.
These two clowns CGAF
The wind-chill is rather bracing
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Looks fab
I love the airborne action dog in the first pic 
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-9C in the small hours, -8C when the alarm went off
Benson’s the nearest weather station to here, one stop up the river from Wallingford.
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Yeah it was -8 when I took the dog out for a walk this morning, no breeze so it wasn’t actually that cold
Still -6 at nearly 10am
Good old Oxon - you’re a fair chunk further south and west than us, yet it only went down to -3 here last night. You’d expect a degree or two sometimes due to the proximity of the sea here, but the difference is often way more. I swear it got colder (and snowier) when I lived there than I used to get when I lived in co. Durham!
-3 here too. Sister in law in Kelowna BC emailed yesterday, no electricity for 24 hours so no heating, -18 there 
Looks like our biennial smear has arrived just in time for Sam’s back-2-skule eve…
Max is underwhelmed too… Yay! White Shitmas!
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It snowed here as well, not quite Funzie levels, probably a mm or two but the dog was happy trying to eat it all
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Thoughts & prayers… 
5’ deep drift in the back garden now
The car won’t be going anywhere for a while, this is the road outside my garden - drifts >3’ in places.
The tractor on the right is trying to clear the roads, the tractor on the left is about to attempt to pull it out of the ditch it has slid into…
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and two very happy spaniels!
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Is there a blower on the island or just the tractors?
Just one tractor. The other one only came to his aid when he slid into the ditch.
He’s contracted by the council for gritting/clearing. Spoke to him yesterday and he started at 4am and finished at 7:30pm, he’s doing the same shift today. Bearing in mind he still has his livestock to look after it’s a tough gig.
The Eastern half of the island is still blocked but he’s working on that now. Our road hasn’t been touched and I don’t expect he’ll get here until tomorrow at the earliest, assuming we don’t get more heavy snow tonight, in which case he’ll have to start on the main road, again.
Not that it bothers me, I’m only going out on foot with the girls and I’ve got at least a couple of weeks worth of provisions before I need to get to a shop.
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