SUSPENDED ANIMATION

Well, not really but with the festive 😟 season ahead gardening takes second place.
The garden is not completely asleep, there are some flowers -

We live up a field, up a track and someone left a non biodegradable black plastic bag of dog poo beside the track - in a field full of sheep droppings next to a paddock full of horse manure. So why wrap it, get a stick and flick it if you must or take it home and put it in the bin. 🤔🙄
Actually it was only thirty yards from our heap of garden manure! Mind boggles.

Back to the garden - I know it is only December but some daffodils think otherwise - 

The raft is still a raft as we wait for steel beams and the timber frame.

The leaf is submerged in the water providing us with a reflection in an infinity pool two inches deep (5cm for the rest of the EU) (Yes we are still members, for now. The whole thing is a farce brought about by a small number of Conservatives putting pressure on David Cameron before an election.)

Anyway. one thing we do have at this time of year are spectacular skies over the bay.

Down in the veg beds the ghost of fleece has still stopped the imminent death of sweet peas but the other beds are well composted in preparation for next year. I will give them another dose in the spring.

It is Friday and the timber frame has begun to go up - now I can picture our downstairs room. 
Went to a specialist in Preston - "Don't do any heavy lifting" - like manure, paving stones or the sit on mower when I get it stuck in the stream? The old body is a bit moth-eaten.

Very cold today (for us) - not above 2C and ice not gone on pond, frost in the shade. Forecast snow tomorrow morning then warmer with gales and MORE rain.

But no snow just RAIN.


To finish this week a load of pigeons and their hunter in the night -