Frosty……..

Well, we’ve had a few frosts and it’s been a bit cool, but we woke up this morning to a doozy……The environment we live it is pretty comfortable, we have double glazing, a living flame fire, an Aga, plus radiators in every room, even the cloak room loo, so it’s easy to loose touch with what’s going on outside. This morning we pulled back the curtains and Wooh!...... one MOTHER of a frost. As it was our day off we went for a lovely walk. It always takes us about 10 minutes to gear up with our gloves, scarves, boots and hats and anything else we can put on to keep warm. It was gorgeous, The cows had frost beards from eating frozen grass…sod that. The geese were sitting on their raft in the middle of a frozen lake hoping the ice wasn’t thick enough for the fox to walk on. There were masses of holly all around, but over the last week the birds have stripped the berries off the bushes. We have our employer’s family coming to stay over the next week and so have had to put the holly in the raspberry cages to keep it safe from the birds, so they can take it back to London to decorate their houses. We got carried away about 2 weeks ago and decorated our house ‘cause it’s so easy to feel Christmassy in this part of the world. It is the season for “shoots” (declaring war on the local wild life) and because our Estate doesn’t have that many shoots these days, the pheasants come and hang out with us, however last Saturday we did have a “shoot” Rod was a beater and managed to scare out the fox – not quite what the guns were looking for – it got away (Rod was silently cheering), however this morning he’s been hanging around sizing up the bathams - again……if he’s not careful he’s gonna get it!! Anyway it’s getting damn cold, the frost didn’t melt today it’s 1 degree here, 5degrees in Tromso so we’re looking forward to going there – warmer temps AND we get snow AND hopefully the Northern Lights……more about that later. Miss you heaps and hope you’re all getting into the Christmas mode….lots of love xxx