Above - Frosty cobwebs.
Above - Poochy - he doesn't seem to mind the cold.
Above - Frosty holly, brr.
Above - poor cows.
Above - ice on the car bonet.It's cold. The thermometer can't seem to get above -2*C let alone nearing the positive figures that lie beyone 0*C. The frost has been lingering for days; each night a further layer is added. Everything is coated in white - the gate, fence posts, grass, dustbins, even the roads are slippy. Somedays the sun comes out but it doesn't have the power to melt away all the layers of frost, other days it's foggy - the sky as white as the ground. It's been like this since Boxing Day. It shows no signs of thawing.
Our fridge is slightly on the small side so we have a box outside the back door where we keep the vegetables. Carrots, leeks, cabbages, cauliflowers, courgettes. Yesterday afternoon I made a quiche - tomate and courgette. Trouble was, when I cut the courgette it had frozen... If it gets much colder the thermometer won't be able to cope - it only goes down to -10*C. Yesterday morning at about 8h15 when I took the dog out it was reading -5*C. A real incentive to get out of your nice warm bed when you know the pre-breakfast walk with the dog could well result in hyperthermia and frostbite. Brr. It may be pretty, all this frost but please, roll on summer!
