“January is the quietest month in the garden. … But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. Rosalie Muller Wright
January: Image by Rosie Hopkins
The D Word-and the River of Life
“I got to that certain age some time ago, but apart from a few light discussions about the D word I don’t publicly dwell on it too much.”
Weather Forecast: Mainly dry and rather cloudy. Winds strengthening later.
Freshening southwesterly winds, becoming strong this evening. Maximum temperature 7 °C.
Hair Ice: Image by Rosie Hopkins
Image by Rosie Hopkins The conditions required for the formation of hair ice are extremely specific, hence the relative scarcity of sightings.
‘Love Itself Shall Slumber On’ to those we have lost to #Covid
Around the world 5,459,176 people have died so far from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of January 02, 2022, 17:09 GMT.
A Little Bit of Good
“Do your little bit of good where you are”
“those sure and skilful hands of the fisher-girl.”
“There is no need they say/but the needles still move”
” The finder found”
“Yourself, the gatherer gathered, the finder found,” Edwin Muir
“more intricately fashioned than any grasses of the field”
“more subtle in texture than any seaweed of the sea”
Weather Forecast: Windy with outbreaks of rain.
Clearer weather with the odd shower will arrive around dusk. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
