A wonderful winter's day

What a wonderful day yesterday was. The light was crystal bright. Not a sign of rain, just the odd fluffy white cotton wool cloud. It was bitterly cold. You could feel the Arctic air. I much prefer winter mornings like this. You can wrap up against the cold but there is nothing you can do to offset the grey & wet. We even drove home about 4.30pm & it was still light – it’s been dark long before 4pm of late.

We decided to go into Lancaster in the afternoon. We’re hunting for some new mobile phones. Our present ones are over 15 years old. They both seem to have given up – we think transmission for these old phones has been cut off – certainly we get no reception. It is almost overwhelming the choice. We’re just looking for a simple phone for the bedside in case I fall out of bed & need to ring the Fox for help. The other one we fancy having a camera. We so often have been out & seen wonderful things we would have liked to take a snap of but not had our camera with us. This is the more used phone as it is the one we carry when we are out of the house, important for ringing for help if the car breaks down. We haven’t bought yet but we have had our eyes opened to some of the considerations to bear in mind.

While we were there we bumped into our old gardener Al. He’s now retired, had a knee replaced, is waiting for a second one. He’s got himself involved with training guide dogs for the blind & loving it.

We then went on to the golf club. As the evening drew on & the sun began to set, the trees & fells were suffused with a golden glow – one of those occasions when we would have appreciated a camera in the phone. It was truly glorious. Altogether it was a lovely day rounded off with a turkey risotto dinner.