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For the second day in a row we have a storm.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad, most of the mountain opened after lunch. Today however the wind is much more severe,  and there’s very little skiing to be had. The kids of course have the nursery slope in the village, complete with a covered travellator type lift.

Once at the top they line up in a neat row, and receive their instructions from ‘Miss’.

Quiz night in Rocks this evening. So far this season we have finished 1st, 3rd and 4th, so we’re getting steadily worse.

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A big day for Aliena, she’s 4 years old, and the whole village knows it. Lots of fun.

Needless to say Larina is not left out, she loves to see her photo on a phone.

It was snowing when we left the kids party. Nice to see that Swiss kids like playing in the snow too.

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Today is the first day that we get families skiing for the European half term holidays. This week it’s the French who arrive in numbers. Busy therefore at Männlichen, with Agincourt style confrontations the between families competing for tables in the Berghaus.

Not quite so busy at Scheidegg.

6 nations rugby started today. Crazy busy in Rocks for the England game.

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Tons of new snow today, up we go along with everyone else. It’s chopped up and tough, but we had a good day.

Beers afterwards in Rocks. Not much conversation – everyone’s exhausted!

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Met Val in Rocks after her rather expensive visit to the hairdresser.

Afterwards we had a lovely meal of steak and scallops at the Bären. We trudged home through 10 inches of snow. This morning was dull and it looked like more snow would be arriving soon, and just before it did, Adrian got off the train and we headed for Rocks.

Popped into the DHO for the annual prize giving ceremony. Here I am picking up the gold award for services to to the club from our President Michael. This was a huge surprise for me, but apparently not for anyone else as they all knew beforehand.

Crazy snowfall.

The kids had been hard at work.

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Popped into the DHO last night as the President wanted a chat. Turns out he wanted me to give a talk on the new club website that’s currently being developed. So here I am giving a talk about the latest website tech to an audience of around 100 people. I had about 10 seconds to prepare.

My principal (indeed only) success criterion at times like this is ‘do I get laughs?’. And I did, thank heavens.

Today it started snowing before we woke up, and it’s still snowing now. Val has to venture out as she has a hairdressing appointment.

I’m staying put,  but the big column of empty bottles in the corner isn’t going to take itself to the recycling,  so pretty soon I’m going to have to brave the weather. Don’t like the look of it one bit, but maybe I’ll pop into Rocks for a couple on the way home.

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Cloudy and very mild this morning. Nevertheless we thought we’d go up the hill to take a look. You can tell when it’s a poor day for skiing – you can’t get a seat at the Edelweiss bar at Männlichen. Sure enough it was really busy,  but we squeezed in and had coffee. Outside the wind began to pick up, which usually means that the weather is going to change.

After coffee and a bit of banter with the others around the bar we set off for Scheidegg. So did everyone else.

The skiing wasn’t up to much so we returned to the village. We ran into Heidelberg Mike who hadn’t even bothered going up. His plan for the day involved little more than drinking beer on the Eiger terrace, and I think he’d made the right decision. Around 2pm the clouds started rolling in, and at last the temperature has begun to fall.