Back home, and picking up the pieces after the end of a big project – pottering in the garden, which is too wet to do anything with, tidying my desk, watching the birds whose feeder I’ve only been able to refill late at night by torchlight up til now.
Cambridgeshire is cold and damp right now [...]
Entries Tagged as 'winter'
Winter
December 12th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: winter
Arctic blasts
February 7th, 2009 1 Comment
It’s been a cold and chaotic week round our neck of the woods, but today has been beautifully sunny and the snow is retreating. I abandoned the plans I’d had to drive a hundred miles away and instead took a walk over the snow dusted fields to look at some big skies.
Definitely a week to [...]
Tags: cambridgeshire · country walks · east anglia · photography · sky · snow · winter
Frozen fenlands
January 11th, 2009 1 Comment
It has been cold enough this last week that the old sport of Fenland skating has been revived, with speed skaters out on the frozen flooded fields, the way they have since the early part of the nineteenth century.
It’s a little warmer today, but local commentators are hoping for a further cold snap so the [...]
Tags: fen · ice skating · skating · speed skating · winter