Let it snow!

After a fairly frenetic Christmas and New Year with family, friends and bed and breakfast guests coming and going, we settled down to a blissful month – of decorating! We have divided our time between painting, walking the dogs(photos taken at Cloutsham Splash), impromptu lunch with friends and along with the rest of the nation, checking on weather forecasts.

I have to say that I am getting a little fed up with the snow now but the dogs LOVE it. They pull themselves along on their tummies, hurtle after snowballs, roll downhill, dive into drifts and generally behave like small children! Some friends of ours who farm up on the moor have been completely snowed in for a few days. Derek just caught them coming back from a combined shopping trip and walking the dogs!

We have seen very few red deer on the moor and only a few in the valleys so they are keeping themselves sheltered somewhere in the woods. There have been flocks of Fieldfares and Lapwings in the fields around us but unfortunately Derek hasn’t been quick enough to get any pictures. There are loads of Woodcock and Snipe about and the bird feeders in the garden have seen a considerable increase in use by Blue tits, Chaffinches, Robins and several other small birds.