my day

Hi all

I hope you don't mind but can I tell you about my day?

We woke up this morning to -3 outside, after getting dressed, went out to the garden to feed the birds (spared them from my usual attire of dressing gown and wellies - far too cold!) , who were all sitting around tapping their feet waiting for me.   Unusually for us, as we live on the coast, we obviously had quite a bit of  a frost, everything was really white that you could almost think we had had slight snow.  The sun was up with pink streaks in the sky, everything looking really crisp and fresh.  Absolutely lovely.  It was the sort of morning when you would like to dress up really warmly, step into your walking shoes and go for a really long walk, breathe in the cold air and revel in just being out there.  Do you know the ones I mean?

Whilst defrosting the car, I heard a very weird sound and looked up, to my surprise, in fact my first thought was "what the h*** why is there a teradactyle flying over my head?" to watch a massive bird fly over and then gently land on the roof of the house across the road.  It was a heron that just sat there, looking very alone and really emphasised because of the whiteness of the frost across the roof.   It seemed odd to see it on a roof, such a big bird.  A starling sitting on the same house's aerial was even looking at it a bit dubiously.  As it was bin day today, someone then came out along the road to slam down their recycling bin which startled the heron, it flew off very elegantly back towards the backwaters.  It was so lovely to watch that I was still standing there with the scraper in my hand long after it had gone.

On the way to work, the sun was shining still casting a pink glow across the field, temperature hadn't reached above 0 but I saw a kestrel hovering over the hedgerow,  then what appeared to be at least 50 pheasant all feeding in the field.

Later on whilst at work it started to snow, not thick admittedly but it coincided with the children practising for their carol concert on Friday (some of you may know I work in a school) - it was just so lovely.  Even when the three of us in the office attempted to sing "Let it snow"  - even the children in Y2 laughing at our efforts really didn't phase the moment!

I'm not a great wordsmith but today was a really lovely day - so much so that when I got home I realised belatedly I should have gone to the supermarket on the way home as we didn't have anything for tea! - hey ho pasta surprise it was.