Proud of my housework efforts this morning, especially in the kitchen. I paid the bill for the boiler repair too. I didn’t see the pheasant today but there was an equally colourful goldfinch.

After lunch I looked at the weather forecast and the ‘feels like’ temperature. 0°C. I got my big jacket out.

Then I changed my mind and had a sofa afternoon. Nothing in the garden appealed for a blip so here’s the book I’ve just started (and the fleece blanket I was under). Forty Farms . . . it was a present for a recent birthday. Much more information in it than on the boards at the photo exhibition of the same name.