It’s that time of the year again - our Snowdrops are out covered with a delicate dusting of snow- a sign that despite their frosting Spring is on its way. 
Even in the heaviest of snow falls, the animals must be fed, and that means getting to some farms that might not be on the easiest of roads. This essential corn delivery to Bassetwood Farm, home of the Carringtons, one of our B&B farms, needed considerable help to get into the farmyard.
It's not just getting the corn in, there is then the problem of getting the fresh milk out every day! Add to that problems with frozen water pipes and tractors that won't start, and everything becomes hard work - the snow may look very pretty, but it can be a farmers worst nightmare.
Fortunately the snow now seems to be disappearing as fast as it came.
It does however give our stunning Peak District scenery a different dimension. The Peak District is very much still open for bussiness - so load up you sledge and catch a last minute pre Christmas break.
Beechenhill B&B stunning in the sparkling sunshine
Hoe Grange Holidays (below) - this self catering log cabin could be in the snowy alps!
Its snowing here in the Peak District today, and although it's causing a few difficulties on the roads, we know that by tomorrow it will be all OK (hopefully). We never seem to get snow like we used to; as a child I remember my father and mother battling to get the milk out to the lorry, sometimes for weeks at a time. Heaving heavy churns full of milk down the road and spending hours a day transporting water back from the local ford for the animals. My mother often tells how in 1947 she was unable to get home for over 5 weeks, and how in 1958 when my sister was born it took a whole gang of men to get the midwife to the isolated farm where she had decided to give birth whist visiting her mother!
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