A little respite

After too many very cold, grey, wet and windy days the sight of sunshine for a while today was welcome.  After an overnight frost, the temperature reached just 03C but, with a keen wind, felt colder and although there was the urge to go out for a walk, neither conditions were conducive to arthritis or trigeminal neuralgia.  Instead we settled for a drive and enjoyed being out of the house for a while but sheltered from the wintry conditions.

The snow and frost had mostly disappeared but large puddles in water-logged fields were icy and one or two hills had retained a little snow.  It was still very cloudy in spite of the sun peeking through from time to time and some hills were a bit hazy as a result…so I had to ditch some of the photographs I took.  But these few show the varying conditions…

Approaching Delut from Marville.

We drove through Vitaraville and Delut to Marville, visited plan d’eau there, then returned home via the same roads, spotting birds of prey, rooks, blackbirds, a herd of cows and a couple of horses.  The birds will need to top up their food intake and we hope the beasts will be given shelter as the forecast is pretty dire for the coming days. As for ourselves, we will probably return to our hibernating state and thankfully are well stocked after a supermarket shop a couple of days ago.


The little respite over, it's time to batten the hatches once more!