Ellesmere, Day 31. 

Whoops........

D - through no fault of her own - has her birthday on Boxing Day leaving the choice of things to do fairly limited. A walk along in the wintery sunshine and then back to a roaring fire with fizz had to do.

Setting the fire for last night I loaded it to the gills with coal as usual, this is to cope with the overnight lows of minus fifteen to seventeen that we have been having recently.

Last night though I dont think it dropped below minus two and we cooked yet again. We even awoke to flowing water at every tap on the boat, something we have not had for at least a couple of weeks, there is always one frozen somewhere.

Although it is warmer now it is raining, why is rain so depressing and grey?
When the snow falls all you want to do is get out into it, but the rain.........no way. I have not even stuck my head outside today and I am literally looking forwards to getting under that duvet.

So.....



Until next time..............






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