Most glorious Night

Thou wert not sent for slumber! Childe Harold (canto III, st. 93)

Too snowy to take the car out today, the roads are all iced up; so we walked to the shops and back. We had a major crisis in the house, child #1 decided to put the gas fire on last night, and did not turn it off properly...14 or so hours later, child #2 says 'Can you smell gas?' just as I was about to light the coal fire!!! Coldest day of the year, -3C and we have all the windows and doors open to disperse the gas lingering in the house. We obviously could not light the fire, or put the heating on either! Hands up all the impressed mums in the room!

Looking out of the window at bedtime, the view was almost idyllic in a Dickensian way. The streetlight could have been a gaslight shining on the trees, with the snow all around; I very nearly began to feel festive!