The festivities are over, the crowds of family have gone, we have eaten too much, and are blissfully happy!
Happy, healthy New Year to all our friends!
It's been deeply cold here, but dry and with some exquisitely beautiful sunny days. Your breath swirls about you whenever you are outside, the birdbath water is frozen solid, to T's delight, and we are putting out lots of seed for the wild birds.
The foal is now about 2 weeks old and spends a lot of its time curled up in the hay next to its mother.
Out walking last night, with strains of muffled party music coming form various houses, plus squeals of children playing outside, and the odd whirr and bang of a firework being set off to celebrate New Year. There was a light frost covering everything. I felt as if I'd stepped into an old-fashioned greetings card sprinkled with glitter. Streets, grass, all sparkled and twinkled under the yellow street lights.
I came out of a walk in the woods this morning across the cricket field and there was a straight slim strip of mist hanging across the field by the copse about 6 feet up, looking like Nature's own protective laser beam. I stepped under it and then looked back, and it was not there!
J
