Wet, Wet, Wet

The New Year swept in on a wave of rain and it hasn’t stopped all day. Neither of us has ventured further than our back gate.

Instead, after a late start, I made a batch of turkey and aubergine curry big enough to feed an army (or at least do us for three meals) while Tess filled in all the important dates on this year’s calendar and completed a bit more of the jigsaw. She’s still struggling with this lousy cough and cold.

The photo just about sums up the day: the blackbird, beaded with rain, making a meal of the berries, a splash of colour on a grey day.