fishydreams

Today has just started and is the last day of the year. Everyone else is in bed but I have just come in from outside the house because I wanted to see if I could take a photograph of the frost on the plants. A jay flew overhead which was a nice surprise. We don´t see too many of them here, maybe because the campo is a little to open for their liking. The pictures of the frosty plants came out better than expected. I had four dogs jumping all over me as I was trying to take them!

Frost is unusual here and we can normally count on one hand the number of days  we have to scrape ice off the cars before we go to work. But even this seems like a lot to work colleagues who live on the coast only a half hour drive away. They tell us they see little or no frost at all.

I have neglected the blog this month, sorry. This is partly because we have a  full house with Grandad over from England and Leo back from university, but mainly because I have been busy with writing a new chapter for Dry River, the book I hope to have published at the end of July next year.

Yesterday I got a little report about the blog and was interested to see that it had been visited by people from 65 different countries. I only know a few “regulars” mainly the UK, Spain and Ireland and would like to thank them, together with those I do not know, for the interest they have shown.

Enjoy your New Year celebrations and best wishes for 2015!

First light

We get relatively little frost here but it looks lovely when the sun catches it

This is Bonita. She is getting on a bit and is no longer up to running around. She is the only one of our five dogs to have left me in peace when out this morning!