It’s very cold! When we woke up this morning, the weather station told us that the temperature was -8 degrees, and that during the night it had dipped to below -10 degrees! Christine told me that in Dunlop, which is more rural, the temperature in the morning was -12 degrees. Although there hasn’t been much snow, * just a dusting really, the pavements are very icy and treacherous. Flora sensibly spent most of the day on our bed, but adventurous Tom made various expeditions into the frozen outdoors and returned with cold fur and feet. When James came in from his walk we made our way carefully along the treacherous pavements to Elfie Trees and chose our Christmas tree. The elves (because yes, the staff do have to dress as elves) looked very cold too. Alison T came round in the afternoon for coffee and we had a cosy time chatting beside the fire. I got a really lovely message from Andrew about the book that I recommended to him recently; “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” by George Saunders. Andrew had loved it as much as I did, which I knew he would. The cold snap is to continue for the next few days but I think that it has passed its very lowest point.
* however Ally and Cat have had some proper snow in London, and sent us beautiful photos of snow falling onto the Thames, and film of Ally throwing a snowball at Cat!
Update on Wednesday morning - how wrong I was! We woke up to -10 degrees so even lower than yesterday, and a winter wonderland of frost on grass, houses and trees contrasting with beautiful blue skies!
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