a frosty reception

It seemed to take a while to find us, but now winter is here. I was freezing in bed last night, one of those restless nights when you feel you spent most of the night snuggling and trying to get warm - I'll remember to fill the hot water bottles tonight. 

As always with cats, Shelley made a wise decision today and decided to go back to bed!

It's lunchtime now, the ground has mostly defrosted and the sun is doing it's best to cheer us up from our winter blues. The winter aconites are starting to bloom along with snowdrops around the garden, in a few days even more will have poked their little heads up through the soil - I can't wait.