Frost - Wednesday 16.2.11

I don't have a garage, I don't even have off road parking, which means I park on the street, reasonably close to our house.

So here I was, sitting, bored, engine running, waiting for a little warmth to creep into the cockpit and melt the baked on frost. Too long. Fidget. Looking for something ... anything ..... to do..... camera in hand. 

Great FROSTY SWIRLS. 

Need I  say more - except; it's not my car?

When Bleak Is Beautiful Monday 29.11.10

It was very cold today, -14C in Wales overnight, but the air was very dry in Nailsworth, which meant it was not a white morning, sadly.

I had to swing by the edge of Stroud to pick up some tiling bits from the DIY shop before going to the Turn Around House. Everywhere was unfrosty - is that a word? The hills above Nailsworth and Stroud had a grey mist draped around them. I had to pass through this mist to get to the Turn Around House. As I got to the border of the high ground, at RODBOROUGH, the world of white began. 

I STOPPED THE CAR AND TOOK A FEW SHOTS.

These two were the best of those first ones.

I drove another half mile and the mist thickened, I pulled over again and took yet more shots.

MAN, IT WAS COLD.

Imagine getting home on a day like this and realising you've locked yourself out and lost your keys. A person could die as they sit on their  freezing doorstep waiting for help to arrive.

I was desperate to stay out here for a few hours. Conditions like this are rare. Me having commitments are not.

MONOCHROME DAY!

Frosty Morning Thursday 25.11.10

Our little house has windows that face, roughly, north, south, east and west which makes us truly lucky, IMO.

Looking out to the east, from our bedroom, both Nailsworth town and the hill that leads up onto Minchinhampton Common were struggling to move under the grip of the frost.

To the west, from our bedroom, the neighbours' bushes (phnar phnar) put me in mind of the decorations we put on our Christmas cakes.

What a totally beautiful day.

Car Scraping Wednesday 20.10.10

I had  to be at a customers' at 8am this morning, so I didn't need to find thick frost on the car glass.

It was so hard on, all but, one side, that I had to get the engine going and put on the blowers to get it to soften. In the meantime, I scraped the only side that had the soft ice on it.

It made me a few minutes late.

Strangely, I LOVE WINTER.