Just Missed

 A week or so before Christmas I was talking to a friend who mentioned that his neighbours, a family from California would be spending their first Christmas in the UK and were hoping for snow on the big day.  I scoffed despite what TV and the movies would have you believe,  a white Christmas is an increasingly rare event in the UK.

Well there was no snow on Christmas Day, but it arrived with a vengeance on the 26th (Boxing Day as it`s known in the UK).

Billy the Pheasant, still around and still awaiting his peanuts from us

The snow and ice are still hanging in there five days later, aided by subzero temperatures during the night and barely above freezing during the day.  We`ll just have to wait and see if we will have a mild winter as was the case last year.