We had a Wengen community meeting in the Victoria Lauberhorn last night. It was nice to see everyone all together, and the food and wine were good. Colin provided the entertainment in the bar later.

While we were enjoying ourselves it was snowing outside, so we trudged home through ankle deep snow.

This afternoon, just after lunch, there was a loud crash outside and a big heap of snow landed on the terrace.

The snow must have fallen from the roof. I couldn’t see fallen snow anywhere else, so we figured there must be more to come. Sure enough, an hour later, another much bigger fall came down on the steps and the garden.

It was really noisy, and I had to dig the steps out so that Val could get up to the village. Here’s the culprit – our shiny and very slippery new roof.

The roof has some defences against sliding snow, but they’re clearly not up to the job. Another problem to tackle.

This evening we popped up to Rocks to meet Val’s ski school colleagues. There was a nice view of the Jungfrau on the way up the hill.