We have a village shop but it's now a case of "who knows" if the delivery van will get through. I wonder if there'll be any buses running to town and back.
Update 20th December
I think the bus service has been suspended. More snow was forecast but the grit was beginning to have some effect so we had another shot at digging the car out this morning. The road is narrow so the original plan was to drive to the pub car park and reverse in or out then hopefully not slide bambi-like downhill, crash into our house and block the road. There was too much snow in the pub car park entrance to get in so we carried on hoping to turn round in the square outside the other pub, but it too looked dodgy so we had to carry on. The bigger town is normally a pleasant twenty minute drive passing scattered farms set against a dramatic backdrop of hills. It probably took three quarters of an hour today.
Usually we only meet two or three cars coming towards us but today there were six. If it isn't at a passing place or a wider part of the road both cars huddle over to the hedges and get on the grass verge. The only thing to watch out for is that there isn't a ditch. On the way back a kite swooped over the hedge on our left and flew down the road in front of us before veering off to grab at something partway up an ivy covered tree trunk on the right hand side of the road. The kite missed it's prey, a squirrel perhaps. With much flapping, affording us a good look at the impressively meaty thighs, the kite turned, flew ahead of us at head height then disappeared up and over the hedge.
I was thinking on the way home about taking a photograph of the icicles hanging from one of the miniature waterfalls that drain into the hedge ditches but there was nowhere to park. Not as picturesque as a frozen waterfall but our house is sporting a novel array.
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