A Cunning Plan!

We are off to Cornwall in a few weeks time with some of the Aston Marina boaters, there will be eight of us altogether, staying in a cottage.

We will probably take it in turns cooking, so with that in mind we invited Ray and Diane from NB Ferndale round for dinner last night. They are currently moored up on the Bollington aqueduct.

The plan was that I would cook dinner.....once they sampled my culinary delights, there would be no chance of me cooking in Cornwall!

I am pleased to say the cunning plan worked a treat!

This morning I was up at an ungodly hour as I had promised to take Diane to Macclesfield station as she was off to Watford for a few days.  I had to pick her up at 11.00am!!

As Diane is away we will meet up with Ray for early doors tomorrow at the local.

Back to today.....

The snow has all but gone from Bollington and we thought it had also gone the surrounding countryside.  However this afternoon wee jumped in the car and went for a drive up the hills behind Bolly.  Just as we were about to leave El's brother Trevor arrived, so he came with us.

We had only driven for about half a mile when we came across this ...

Another couple of miles and we were in a winter wonderland ...

They have had a serious dump of snow up here ...

We stopped in the Goyt Valley and decided to walk around the reservoir ...

Elaine's arty shot ...

It was a lovely day and temp was about -3, but with no wind it felt a lot warmer.

The dogs were loving it as there were animal tracks everywhere.  Here is Sammie burying his head in the snow checking out a scent ...

I just love the snow ...

Bombo was going so crazy he discarded his coat that El makes him wear!  He then dug deep ... 

The sun was going down rapidly so we decided to back track.  We really didn't want to get lost and call out the emergency services!  We will start a bit earlier next time then we should be able to circumnavigate the lake. 

Mush doggie ...

Elaine playing snow angels!  You can also see some animal tracks on the left of the pic ...

A view of the reservoir on the other side.  We will tackle the walk around that one another time!

All in all, a lovely afternoon!