Cumbria - or at least the western half of the county - seems to have escaped the worst of the wintry weather that Siberia has kindly sent our way. However, it's still been bitterly cold (the maximum temperature so far today has been minus 1c) and with three inches of snow lying on the ground, [...]
Storm Caroline passed us by without too much incident, but in its wake we've got bitterly cold winds and the first proper snow of the winter. At town level it only dusted the rooftops, but the fells looked really dramatic seen from Longlands Road when I took a camera for a walk this afternoon...
I got cabin fever this afternoon so set off for a walk round the local streets - and because we'd had the first proper snowfall of the winter overnight, I took my camera with me. It wasn't sunny, but there were odd brighter gleams amongst the dark clouds, just enough to light up some of [...]
