Cold frozen fun

So cold the water around the willow trees has frozen over

I was down at the orchard with the whole family, my son enjoying feeding and stroking the horses in the field next to us. My son was disappointed we hadn't bought apples for the horses and actually cried when it was time to go home. Today was one of the only days this week with no rain in fact it was warmer than normal and the bees were coming and going out of the hive.

The weather over the last couple of days has been cold and so cold that the water and the small area of the orchard that floods had frozen and a small layer of thin ice which was great for stomping over with your wellies on. We also picked up bits and dropped little bits of ice down each others backs and even cracked large bits of ice over each others heads. We had fun messing about.

Bees enjoying slightly warmer day

The trees are fine minor amounts of rabbit damage nothing major.

My son stroking a pony in the next field

The ground is very damp and the horses have been on the land munching up the grass, they havn't killed anything and the orchard is looking better with the grass much lower down.