Pre-Christmas preparations

The past week (snow, snow and more snow)

Making Christmas crackers:

Melting and then re-freezing:

dd1's birthday:

And then we all got ill and went to bed!

(Gradually recovering and getting ready for the big day tomorrow)

The story so far

First came this:

And some of this:

Followed by a bit of this:

And this: (very pretty):

And then we got this:

Which meant lots of this:

A bit of this: (self-made snowball on Jack's collar after running down the garden)

Some chilly this: (chickens refusing to come out):

And plenty of this:

And some foolish this:

And recently some fantastic this:

And this: (largest icicle measured 68cm/27" approx)

And now I really need to go do some of this: