It's winter...
Saturday, 11 February 2012 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightWe had more snow yesterday, though it dripped and dropped from the trees quickly enough in the sunshine - but last night the temperatures dropped, and according to the Uni of Cambs. Digital Technology Group who run a weather station on a roof in Cambridge, it's even now currently -6.8C! At 11am in the morning! With the sun out! It's never that cold here, even in the middle of the night with the sun in! *g* Apparently it was -13.8 at 7am this morning.
I knew it was cold when I glanced out the window and saw that the spider webs were all frosted up - and then went to collect the milk from the front doorstep...
The sheep are in the paddock (sorry - field!) across the road, and some seem to have been given bells - I love to hear them jangling around, it's a lovely sound!
I looked up and saw that the rooks had settled in their usual distant trees - but how much more stunning do they look in all this winter white! (You might have to click on that one to get the effect though, of them all dotted against the sky...)
Oh, I do like frost-on-snow, and proper dry winter's days, and... just - yeay! What I should really do is get my bum in gear and go for a walk... instead I might show you some pics I took on a brief but pretty walk yesterday too...
Yeay winter! *g*
I knew it was cold when I glanced out the window and saw that the spider webs were all frosted up - and then went to collect the milk from the front doorstep...
The sheep are in the paddock (sorry - field!) across the road, and some seem to have been given bells - I love to hear them jangling around, it's a lovely sound!
I looked up and saw that the rooks had settled in their usual distant trees - but how much more stunning do they look in all this winter white! (You might have to click on that one to get the effect though, of them all dotted against the sky...)
Oh, I do like frost-on-snow, and proper dry winter's days, and... just - yeay! What I should really do is get my bum in gear and go for a walk... instead I might show you some pics I took on a brief but pretty walk yesterday too...
Yeay winter! *g*
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Date: Saturday, 11 February 2012 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 08:21 am (UTC)Heee for frozen petrol caps! I was quite glad not to be driving that week, though I don't mind driving in snow in general. On the bright side, we don't have to go out and plug our cars in overnight, over here... *g* And I remember the first time I realised that people turned their car engines on and then went away and left them running with the keys in for half an hour (in Alaska) to warm up the engine - my little heart-from-Manchester didn't know what to do with itself, I wanted to run down and stand guard on them all! *g*