Pre-Christmas Christmas
Mum and Dad have just set off home after spending the weekend with us for a pre-Christmas mini-holiday.
The snow was still around when they arrived, it was actually really pretty by then, with a lovely white covering and crisp clear blue skies.
We went out to Ask on Friday night (after trudging through the snow – it was impossible to find a Taxi) and Kel cooked us a Christmas Roast on the Saturday evening.
One little bonus we were very surprised about was the delivery of our new TV Stand and Coffee Table on the day of the heavy snow. Considering the trains were all cancelled and airports closed we were shocked when the lorry driver turned up at 5pm with the furniture!
They look lovely though.
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
We were happily sipping our Mulled Wine in front of the TV last night and noticed that it had started snowing rather heavily.
This morning we woke to a thick dollop of snow covering Brighton. Very pretty to look at but we now feel rather cut off.
Kel trudged to the supermarket to get some supplies and saw the shelves were rather bare. Brighton Station is closed with no trains making it in or out.
I attempted to build a snowman on the terrace but the snow was too powdery. Tsk. So I grabbed our camera and took a walk down to the beach to see it in all its snowy glory.
Brighton itself looked more like an Austrian Ski resort than a seaside town but there was some stunning scenery.
We’ve both said we can’t quite get used to the sound of seagulls in the snow.
You can see all the pictures I took here.
Let it Snow (but only for five more minutes)
Winter has well and truly arrived early this year.
The snow began falling towards the end of November after a really mild start to the month. It has to be the first time in living memory that we’ve put up the Christmas decorations while it’s snowing outside. We had our new tree delivered yesterday (after a delay because of the snow) and it’s lovely. A bit big for the room, but lovely!
I popped out and spent a few frozen moments on the terrace to take some pictures. Yes, that is Kel you can see popping his head out of the door. He was telling me lunch was ready :O)
An Alpine Sunset
It’s very hard to do the sunsets over Whistler Mountain any justice with our rather woeful camera skills.
We’ve tried our best with this view from our balcony, just as the sun disappears behind a distant mountain. It’s not perfect as it took a bit of fiddling with afterwards to bring some of the foreground details out, but it’ll do.
This area of Canada is on virtually the same latitude as the UK, so the days are the same length, though the light always fades a little earlier up here due to the mountains.
