Work was shut down over the Christmas period, so apart from visiting the farm a few times to check everything was okay, I had a very restful 10 days. I returned to work on Monday and saw the arrival of a skip and site safe (we are getting a new cow shed and so are loosing the tool shed while it is getting built). On Tuesday I went in and did a morning on chain-sawing (which although is a very reliable chainsaw did not like the cold). By lunch time, it had started snowing. So Sarah and I went home. By 7.30 when Tim got home (4 hours to do a 12 mile journey- mainly because of people rather than snow) we had about 4 inches of snow. By the next morning we had another 4 inches. The boys have been off school and out everyday sledging and building an igloo- I'll try to put up video and photos. I have also been off work as our "head office" closed because of the snow. More snow is predicted tomorrow, we'll see what happens.
The turnips and treacle mentioned in the title are the everyday confusions I suffer from living in the south. What they call swedes, I call turnip and what they treacle, I call golden syrup- tonight over syrup puddings, confusion rained so to speak.
1 Comments:
Treacle and Golden Syrup are definately different things! I don't understand the confusion though, as they come sold in clearly labeled tins. Treacle is dark and in a red tin, golden syrup is, well, golden and in a green one!
The difference between a turnip and a sweede is subtler but they too are different things- it's down to size. A turnip will fit in one hand I think.
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