What have we been up to?

For the last few days we haven't been doing anything too exciting. We have been skiing on our own and with some friends, we went out to lunch with friends, we raked leaves off the drive (big job given number of leaves and 600m of drive), we put more gravel on the drive (feels like futile never ending task, but maybe it will stop sinking without trace at some point) and we have spent time searching for various things (bigger duvet, waterproof jackets, tax documents) in boxes.
Poppy was sick in the middle of the night. Seems to happen from time to time. Last time it was worse and we took her to the vet where she proceeded to barf giantly three times on his floor and scales. He was most impressed. He gave her an anti emetic injection (expensive!) which fixed her up quickly. luckly this time just seems to be the once so no need for a repeat visit.
The weather has been very cold with heavy frost over night (forecast was -7°C our thermometer said -2°C but it is close to a window). So far nothing has frozen solid and the pump has kept running. Water coming in to the house is REALLY cold though and makes washing hands etc a painful experience (as the hot water is only on when we shower). Showering is not very attractive idea either but we have been maintaining standards and braving it despite the freezing conditions. One day we didn't collect an egg and it stayed in the egg box overnight and froze and cracked, was fine when defrosted and fried.