Snow and the pigeon precautions

We had a load of snow this morning.  Lovely big flakes which soon gave us around 3 inches of snow in our garden.  Unfortunately  we had to go into Edinburgh for an appointment at 10.30, and the roads were blocked first thing.  However the roads soon cleared and we arrived around half an hour late which wasn’t too bad.  The person we were to see had arrived late for work themselves.  Afterwards we went for a short walk around the Botanic Gardens.  It was freezing cold and we had the place pretty much to ourselves 

The construction on the right or the picture is the guard thechimp created to keep the pigeons out