Well actually it’s the southern elevation that’s bearing the brunt of the weather - piling about 6 inches of snow against my windows. Looks like for the second weekend I’m snowed in. This is my eighth winter here and the only winter that I’ve actually been unable to get the car off the estate (apparently they had similar conditions Easter the year I moved in in the August). Had a couple of horrendous days at work this week, and vendor support seemed very hard to come by. I think we may need to revisit out maintenance agreement and discuss how their (non)helpline can be made to actully work. A couple of friends came round for dinner last night (no nice Chianti though), it’s always difficult with these two friends because one’s a vegetarian (which is fine) and the other one is a very fussy eater (that too is fine) - it’s just the combination that’s the problem. So I ended up cooking chicken in it’s pyjamas (parmigiana), a pasta bake and a mushroom risotto, which seemed to go down well. I know people (if anyone reads this) will think “boring” but the F1 season got off to a cracking start yesterday with qualifying in Bahrain - the excitement mainly being provided by my favourite, lil Kimi, having a major accident with his car as the rear suspension failed in the first session! He now starts from the back of the grid but hopefully he’ll be able to make major inroads as the race unfolds. Roll on 11:30