There you are - a "sort of" hailing photo - the white bits are hail anyway, you just can't clearly see it coming down in frozen stair-rods!
My final "noodle" arrived today and is being straightened (it arrives tied in a knot!) and I hope to crack on with Danny's quilt tomorrow.
Tam and I got out for a walk today, wearing wellies as we intended coming back across the fields beside the river. Only one teensie problem, Jim had turned 7 horses out in there and it was literally HOCK deep in mud in all the gateways and the land in between not much better. In one gateway I all but lost my boots - the mud came to within an inch of the tops! Just as well there was a fence to hang on to . . .
My peak flow was lousy this morning (below 400) but after the walk, shot up to just over 500, which is good for me, so I hope to get out whenever it is dry enough (that hasn't happened very often recently).
We bought our tree yesterday (a Nordman fir from Charlies) and dressed it today. It's a lovely tree and looks really pretty - this photo was taken whilst it was daylight outside though so you can't see the lights on it.
It's been soup making weather and so I made some Scotch Broth today, boiling up the bone from the small lamb joint we had yesterday (and afterwards it went out to hang from the apple tree so the birds could get the last smidgins of meat from it.) Tea tonight was a tasty lamb biriani, with enough for another single meal tomorrow night.
Keep warm all.
