It was very cold last night when I went to bed. I had
a decent night’s sleep once I’d warmed up, but that took a while.
I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet. It
was still there. There were loads of posts about how people had been having
issues in the ice overnight and this morning… which was odd bearing in mind
that according to all the weather forecasting sites the temperature had been
above freezing since yesterday afternoon. Mind you there’s a yellow weather
warning for snow… despite there being no snow featuring on any forecast for the
next few days.
I had a message from a geo-pal. Her and her husband
won’t be along to the meet-ups I’m planning as they spend the winter driving
round southern Europe in their motorhome. I would like a motorhome… but I
suspect it would be a whole load of arse-ache as well.
I got the dogs into their coats and onto their leads
and we went for our walk. Once I’d scraped the ice from the car’s windscreen we
had no ice issues. Having been meaning to do so for some time I finally counted
the amount of traffic lights we go through on the way to the woods. There are
nineteen sets on the way there and seventeen sets on the way home. We got
delayed at seven on the way there.
We got to the woods where I was amazed. There must
have been a heavy snow there yesterday afternoon as there were sheets of
melting ice everywhere this morning. Bearing in mind the mud had melted we
mostly stuck to the firmer paths which meant we missed pretty much all of the
areas where we were most likely to see deer, and consequently we didn’t see
any. We didn’t see any squirrels or normal people either. And despite it being
a good six degrees warmer than it had been yesterday, it felt a lot colder.
After three and a quarter miles (or three and three
quarters depending on what device you consulted) we were back at the car
and had burned off either three hundred and eighty-four or four hundred and six
calories depending on which app you believed.
We came home and were only delayed at four of the
seventeen sets of traffic lights. The dogs didn’t need a bath, but their coats
were wet from the ice so they got hung up to dry. I made us a cuppa.
I spent a little while doing CPD, but somehow
uploading updates to my atlas
seems to scramble the pictures.
I again spent the afternoon slobbing in front of the
telly watching episodes of “Four in a Bed” which compared two houses
that let out rooms, a pub and a country hotel. And as always those that ran the
poorest establishment were the most critical of the lot.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up a very good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching the first episode
of the new season of “Junior Bake Off” in which some incredibly small
children made some incredibly good cakes. And then tonight’s episode of “The
Traitors” in which the identity of the mystery traitor was revealed. I’d
guessed who it was… from the amount of screen time the various contestants had
been given it could only have been one of two possibles.
Oh – and our Munzee clan achieved the first of our
monthly targets today on the first day that we could possibly have done so.
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