Cold shoulder

And arms and hands etc.. Left the house at 6.50 to drop Carla off at work and checked the temperature gauge and nearly crashed when I saw it said -14! Even for Essex this is cold! So I'm now resigned to being a Lad of leisure (!) until well into the new year.

Saturday was to have seen us go to my brothers for a Christmas get together. One and a half hours of torrential blizzard later and we had to stay home as I couldn't get the car off of the drive. My niece and nephew took over 5 hours to get there (A 30 mile drive)

Carla and I have been frantically shopping in case we get stuck in at Christmas. We suddenly realised we had no dinner in should we get marooned as we are due at her brothers on Christmas day.

Listening pleasure this evening is a couple of songs. First is Blood sweat and tears which throws me straight back into the sixties along with  Herb Alpert's classic This guy's in love with you for no particular reason other than I suppose it's a nice song to be stuck indoors with on a winters day. And I love the piano in it

Oh, and finally I took the shot above on my iphone. I'm quite pleased with it and I think it shows how cold it has been today! Not a cloud in the sky and currently a rare sight with all the airports closed here!