"Il neige", snow at 2 Ave Corneille, Marly-le-Roi

Our first snow!

Its January 2015, I am sitting blogging here in Cape Town, it's mid summer, it's fiercely hot and I am indoors keeping cool.

What a difference looking at my letter from January 1987 that I was writing from Marly-le-Roi in France to my mother in Howick, South Africa.

Then I was housebound for a very different reason, snow.

Such excitement to wake up to 'a white wonderland'. It was snowing in Paris and reading the letter we were having some very cold days too, -16 degrees.

The low temperatures made the snow fine and powdery, not fun to play with.
But Fred still made our first snowman 'with naartjies for eyes, baby marrow for a nose and Barry's hat.' Looking at the photo of the snowman, he looks rather like Fred with its moustache.

I remember that Shawni was not keen to be out and posing with the snowman. 'She was confused by the snow, but loves it when inside'.  She and I watched Fred from the kitchen window, I also preferred been indoors.

I was baking banana bread for Sally who walked to me for tea, I was knitting, doing my photo albums and playing with the kids while snowbound. Sounds lovely indeed.

View from our dining room across to the chateau over the road.