New Year's Day arrived with fresh snow fall, which makes a change from the incessant rain. We start the year though, not snowed in, but "rained in" as the road out of the glen is now precariously positioned at the top of a loose mud cliff with quite a considerable drop into the river below. The river has continued to undercut the escarpment so more is quite likely to go, and the angle of the slope looks too steep to be anything close to stable too. We do have a work around, but that isn't really sustainable either and still the tourists keep driving up to look at the falls....

Anyway, I thought this was a good photograph to launch my 15th "Photo a Day" project that has mapped life over the last decade and a half!

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Looking back up Glen Coiltie as we started walking back up the hill home after a winter wander down to the bridge today.

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The holiday's are over - just a day tomorrow of packing away the decorations and evicting the tree... then back to normal on Monday.

Weather dependant!

This is the view back up from the village towards the house up on the hill, high above the landslip and slowly becoming icebound! Next week is looking generally pretty chilly so it is going to get interesting!

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Sunset as we say goodbye to the holidays - tomorrow is back to reality, both work and school. I am kicking the week off with a trip out to Portknockie which will be a nice change of scenery!

The snow is still very much present that fell on Hogmanay and is sitting on a sheet of ice which makes driving down the track a little trecherous but I haven't needed to break the snow chains out.

Yet.

Hopefully this week we will get some kind of update regarding the collapsed bank/road situation too. And I am praying for a rapid resolution - whilst anticipating a lengthy delay (this is a worry as the longer it waits, the greater the chance of complete failure!)

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