In my suburban heat island of little terraced houses, the outside minimum was down to -5.9C overnight. A couple of young foxes – I think last year’s cubs – were chasing round the neighbouring gardens, delightful to see. Photo taken through the slightly steamed-up bedroom windown – hence a bit washed out!
This afternoon I took the Christmas tree down. A day earlier than 12th night but I’ve got the alarm engineer coming tomorrow (for the service postponed from November) and I needed to rearrange things so he can get to the control panel. Due to severe frosts, I’ve put the tree by the window in the (unheated) spare bedroom, rather than bunging it back outside.
and after increasing the contrast a bit in my photo-editing program:
