Hi all!!
Some photographical updates to see here. This was the view from my old room towards the middle to end of December. We have had some amazing amounts of snow here. Actually it was probably the most snow and continuously cold weather I can rememeber outside during december. Usually we have to wait till the end of January to get just a little bit. Especially in Essex.
And no, that mound of braken in the left of the photo is neither an abruptly growing bush....or a viking funeral pyre. That is the result of my father thinking that pruning the cherry tree to within an inch of its life was a good thing to do just before winter. It now looks bare and forlorn and come the spring i'm not going to get my usual pink candy floss shower of petals. And I don't really like the colour pink so you know that if i'm lamenting its loss that I really liked that tree.
This winter wonderland is over a nearby field that I regularly cross to get to town. At the start of the snowy spell, when I took this picture it was only about 12 hours into it. The river here is almost forzen over with only a few free flowing bit left. By the end of the first night the river was solid and even after the snow stopped it took at least 2/3 weeks for all of the ice to thaw and for the river to start flowing again.
The raods were hazardous but it had nothing on the pathways. Literaly I can't count the amonut of times that I braved the traffic and just walked on the road instead. But better tha nbreaking my neck anyway.
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