Up The Farway Tree

Snow snow snow..

It's been a tough week with the snow and trying to get to work!  Monday was complete madness and one of those days you wish you hadn't bothered getting up :-)  I got the train into work and by lunch time there were reports trickling in of mayhem on the roads, with all buses off, gridlocked cars and problems with the trains.  I decided to phone all my afternoon clinic patients and we had a wee phone consultation instead of just cancelling their appointment altogether, then headed off to try and get a train.  By this time all the trains to my town had stopped running and there were no taxi's at all - the traffic was just standstill along the main road.   I decided to just get a train as far as I could, which was about 4 miles from my house.  The first mishap was falling getting onto the train, which was rather embarrassing and caused a pretty impressive bruise on my shin.  I had initially planned to phone a taxi from that station but it turned out most of the taxi's weren't out because of the roads, and it was a 2 hour wait!  I decided just to walk - it took about 1 hr 40 mins because of the snow and ice but I was so impressed that my lungs had no difficulty at all!  My joints however were in agony, and I also went over on my ankle about a mile from home, but the sheer brilliance of the fact I could do it was amazing.  I would never had dreamt of it before :-) 

It's been a bit of a nightmare all week with trains running late and being cancelled, but there is a thaw starting today so fingers crossed the roads will clear a bit, although rumours of more snow next week.  It does all look rather Christmassy and I have my tree and decorations up.  I have this really cool advent house this year - you open a wee door every day and there is another figure to add to the Christmas house (thanks Anne and John!)  I am such a big kid.

My friend Fi gave me this decoration, so it was nice to stop and think of her when I was decorating the tree.  She loved Christmas too :-)

Seb is still enjoying the snow, but really not so keen on the slush.  I am still making him wear his wee coat when he goes out to keep him a bit cleaner - this is what he thinks of it!

This is after a walk when he sits in the kitchen waiting on his treat - bit intense!

It was my Christmas night out at work yesterday, which was really good.  There was the minor blip of the fire alarm going off during coffee and us all having to stand outside the hotel in the freezing cold!  They started handing out those foil blankets but thank fully we weren't outside that long.  It was a good night and I managed to do quite a bit of dancing despite having gone over on my ankle earlier in the week - I had it all strapped up with tubi grip for the purpose of dancing.  Not the most sensible I know, but can't really go to night out and not dance!   I have another night with all the doctors next week but am unfortunately covering the resource centre the next day so better be sensible and not too late.  I also have appointment at transplant clinic on Tuesday but will decide nearer the time if it's safe enough to drive down.   

I will leave you with a picture of Andrew trying to work from home and Seb 'helping'