The Benefit of Snow.

Having six hours of incessant and sometimes heavy snow confers one benefit: it gets you some exercise. Today I:

a) Cleared the paths and a parking space three times with the snow shovel.

b) Cleared twelve land drain grids in the lane in anticipation of the forecast heavy rain that is supposed to be coming overnight.

c) Went out around once an hour to keep my frantic little feathered friends adequately fed.

And I never fell over once, but I do now have backache.