<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/768/snow-14th-jan" rel="attachment wp-att-769"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-769" alt="snow-14th-jan" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/snow-14th-jan.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>Two weeks into the New Year and we have snow. Of course it looks lovely but we're not that good at driving on snow in this country because it comes intermittenly and rarely lasts very long. We're due for some cold weather over the next few weeks so it may linger until the end of the week.

Jane worries about icy conditions because her knee is not recovering as quickly as she would like and she feels it might be more painful now than before the operation. It is a real worry.

The house build project is moving forward, if a little slower than we would like, however we have so many decisions to make that we might delay progress if it moved any faster. The architect is trying to get as much production information together as possible so he can develop a budget cost however it is unlikely that we will spend over our expected budget so we're quite comfortable with the situation.

The next step is to get confirmation from the planners that the design of the drive will be acceptable to them. Although we have planning permission one of the conditions is that we design a drive structure that will not harm the tree roots. I'm not sure about the timings on this.