Storm day

And so to February. I don’t know about you but in my younger days February was the month when the big freeze arrived and your pipes burst. It was balaclavas, knitted mittens your mum made and a ton of blankets and eiderdowns on your bed. Add to this the health and safety risk of a paraffin heater in your bedroom. Those were the days, eh?

Now, and as a consequence of climate change, in recent years this has changed to a bland chilly greyness. But as a bonus, this February instead of the joys of an occasional ‘snow day’ off work, we had a ‘storm day.’ Wonderful you’d think. But hang on, there’s all that online learning brought in during the pandemic. So we rolled up our sleeves and worked from home. No longer can a school that’s closed be actually closed.

There was time,later in the month, for a rare venture out to a garden center, one of my favourites, Brackenwood. Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t much going on outside but there were a lot and lots of bulbs and nice stuff to look at. A reminder that Spring is not very far away.