My wife has winter tyres on her Land Rover Discovery. She just turns the dial to ‘snow’ mode, puts it into low box and it crawls up the steep entrance to the drive with no drama while delivery men are stuck and unable to get up to us. I had manufacturer-recommended winter tyres on a second set of manufacturer’s wheels, for my last car; when I was still driving, that is, in 2011.
There is about 4-5 in of snow in the field now. Yesterday morning there was a blizzard, total whiteout, lasting an hour. We have been running the kitchen tap day and night hoping not to lose the water supply to freezing of pipes from our borehole.
We have a deep borehole which gathers water that descends from Beinn nan Càrn and a pump that takes the water up into a very large head tank a little way up the bank. In Braigh Mhàrr, my wife tells me it, was down to -12℃ the other day or maybe night. We usually escape all the deep cold.
