Heavy overnight snow fell at the lake. A lone fox trotted by at ten twenty six but soon called pickings slim and moved on. Bears remained firmly in their snow caves. We won’t see them before spring. The low sun, at its coldest setting, isn’t designed to warm up the countryside.
This is effectively the start of 2026. Yes it is already the fifth of January but those first few days were really just a hangover from 2025. THG has gone off to the gym on her bike for a spot of weight training. One tough mudder. I am trying to get my brain into gear to do some work this morning. This ain’t as easy as it sounds after a month celebrating the birth of Christ/midwinter pagan festival/call it what you like.
The shed is warm but I also have season appropriate clothing in the guise of a heavy flannel lumberjack type shirt and my v cozy Himalayan woolly jumper. It has actually become a lovely crisp sunny morning. Still v cold out obvs.
I’m also going to reactivate my gym membership today and perhaps go for a swim this pm. I can do this via the Total Fitness app which I was initially reluctant to install as it gets terrible reviews. In fact when I logged onto it this morning an Android message came up telling me there was a bug in the app and that I should clear the cache! Tbh all I want to do is rock up, swim, jacuzzi and head home so doubt I’ll be using the app for much. I was able to add my Amex card to the app so that is an improvement on my previous payment method of Tesco Clubcard. I’m pretty sure they said they didn’t take Amex when I first signed up.
In other news I finally got around to deleting the Anne’s Vans Facebook page. We move on……
fox reappeared at 15:06. Of course I forgot to press the record button on the camera! Finally it visited again at 21:52.