Baby, its cold outside

Our freezer looked as if it was bleeding to death. 

There had been a power cut.

Luckily it wasn't blood but raspberry/cherry juice! It was also lucky that the outside temperature plus the inside-the-house temperature was very low. I think it had been hovering around 1 degree C, so very little had actually defrosted - apart from the soft fruit.

Just  returned from Zermatt, we abandoned our cases, ignored the mail on the door mat and started cooking various items. I think Bill made about six apple and soft fruits crumbles which we cooked and then froze again. I cooked pork chops, chicken, duck and beefburgers. Those we ate cold over the next few days. 

The house was freezing for the first day or so but we survived and soon got back to normal. I suppose we were used to the cold after a week in Zermatt with temperature as low as -9 degrees C.