I hope I do not speak too soon, but we have escaped the worst of the recent weather. Even better, there has been no hard frost, so we have not had to cope with the problem of pavements turned in to ice rinks by frozen slush.
Temperatures seem to have sunk below freezing only in the small hours – indeed on Tuesday I was convinced that the snow was still melting off the tops of the high hedge around the field at the back of the house until late into the evening
Yesterday evening was different, the pavements icy almost as soon as the sun went down
The consolation was that the stars were visible for the first time in ages, & I walked down the hill under the watchful eyes of Orion & Sirius, & the Evening Star
