I suppose being British, we tend to think that we have the monopoly on bizarre weather. Maybe we do in the microcosm of a day –you know sunny morning then snow. It hasn’t been above freezing since early December – mostly around minus 5and easily minus 20 at night but then 3 days ago I understood what Christina said about winter in Finland. After weeks of minus a lot, when it gets to 0 it feels like a summer’s day. It was just above freezing but it felt so warm – I had all the windows open and didn’t wear my long johns. I sat outside on the step late at night and enjoyed the warn air – it was just minus 1.
But then yesterday it was actually 18 degrees – T shirt weather and of course everything is melting and its so noisy! After the silent world of the snow its just drip drip drip. Its going to take a while for all of this to go and I cant help thinking where is it going to go? I guess it’ll be variations on mud for a while now but hey .. this isn’t spring…. There could be another 3 feet of snow next week but its bright sunshine right now and there’s some heat in it.
I am glad its going away now – its getting dirty and cos it was still deep before the thaw, its really hard to walk anywhere. Its just sort of sinking now and things are becoming visible that I haven’t seen for weeks – saw some green yesterday! We’ve been using different paths around the field mainly because Tino was the trail blazer and I just followed in his footsteps
I am alone in the village now – Elaine and Keith have gone back to Scotland for a few weeks. I think Jorge is quite impressed that I’m staying – he came in the other day to see if I was alright cos he couldn’t see any smoke from my chimney and I’m sure they wonder what I do in here all day –they know I don’t have a telly. I dont know what I do sometimes! I’m not very motivated to do actual work – I haven’t finished the bathroom yet although its getting there. Sometimes I don’t speak to anyone all day and I’m surprised at how that’s OK. I’ve never had the luxury before of just sitting down and reading a book all the way through and I’m getting through a great variety – Agincourt, The Secret Garden, Zen Archery and a few very thick best selling paperbacks. and I have some god DVDs to watch