Sunday Snow

Christmas really has descended on us. An inch of snow descended after breakfast this morning and transformed the landscape. The temperatures yesterday had been down to -4 C so it fell on very firm and icy ground. By late morning the skies cleared and a Sunday walk up the hill beckoned for Christine and me. She suggested attempting the steep climb past the ‘very tall tree’ to the trig point at the top of Moyle Hill. That was quite an ambitious target for me and did require a few rest stops but we got there; 150 meters above sea level. The path on the other side of the hill drops down and meets the mountain bike ‘red route’ creating a nice circuit back down onto the forestry road. All around us there seemed to be snow clouds; beyond the Solway Firth the Lake District hills were lost in a great bank of them, but the Moyle was bathed in blue sky all the time we were out there.
Tomorrow it’s back to reality with a 2 hour trip to the Glasgow clinic starting at 8 am. I don’t think the driving conditions are going to be particularly good but the hospital have laid on special individual transport for me, so at least that takes the pressure off Christine. I will not be back until 2.30 pm, weather permitting, so probably no walks on Monday.