Of Waiting and Oh.....!!! How Windy!

Waiting is such an agony! And we have been in such agony for 8 weeks -   Not knowing our fate.  Not knowing which way our plan should go - well, it is just that without knowing we just cannot plan or anything - we could not even start to plan anything. Such agony it was! And of course with that kind of 'torture', one just does not feel like adding any entry in one's blog.

Well, we have been waiting for the decision on our visa extension.  And Syukur Alhamdulillah it was approved and we received all our documents plus the permit two days ago. And what a relief that was.  Now we can settle down a bit. We can tell the children that they can expect to continue with school. Hakim has to really start studying and practising for his SAT.  He will be going to Secondary School after the summer term so we hope he can get a satisfying result.  Danish can look forward to move to the new school building in March. That will be a big relief to him as it will only be a 15 minutes walk from home - At least 15 minutes is quite  bearable to walk in the cold windy weather as compared to the 30 minutes walk now - he keeps on convincing me that after 10 minutes he will be warm enough. Well, actually, it's quite true, in fact if you walk fast enough you almost feel like fainting when your body gets warm and you are wearing one too many layers of clothing.  You will start cursing yourself for wearing too many but once it gets windy, you start thanking yourself again for being sensible for wearing a few layers! Hmmm... the weather is that unpredictable! Oh dear me! How do I get to go on about weather now?

Talking about the weather, it is currently very windy here where we live. From the forecast the west south-westerly wind is blowing at 20 - 22 miles per hour. But when you listen to the wind, you worry if the next blow will take your roof away with it and think perhaps it is 40 mph instead! - not to mention the whistles and rattles that managed to wake you up from sleep thinking perhaps someone is seriously breaking into your house.  

I have to wade through to get into the car as I reached the train station just now and when I opened the door it rudely pushed me inside and I really have to get both my legs inside the car as quickly as I can in case, just in case, the fierce wind cut them both off with the help of the car door which became extra heavy! Ohhh! How troublesome!

Anyway, windy or not we have to brave through this weather as we have been braving all the weathers all these while! :-D

A Sneak Peek of Spring?

As we were on our way back from Birnam last week enjoying the sun shiny Saturday, I overhead part of the weather forecast on Radio Tay : ".... we will be experiencing a winter spell next week where forecast of snow and blizzard...".

"That can't be happening." I said "What can't?" asked my husband. "Snow and blizzard... C'mon! We just have a week of nice weather. White, yellow and purple crocuses are everywhere. Daffodil too! All symptoms of spring."

Symptoms or not, Monday night as I was putting away the dishes, looking through my kitchen window, I saw snow pouring down! Pouring down like rain! Oh no! This was not happening...! 

Tuesday morning, as I was walking the children to school we were almost blown away by the wind. And I was informed by my neighbour that there were 63 trees fell down in Dundee (one or two nearby the University) and one just in front of Dickson Avenue (yes! That close to home). And the strong wind continues until Thursday (though not as strong as when it first came!).

And today, as the school starts it's term break, the weather is very much better! It is still cold but there is a promise of sunshine. Hopefully our trip to Stirling and Loch Lomond tomorrow will not be marred by bad weather.

So? The crocuses, daffodil, are they just a sneak peek of spring?