All Go. No Snow

We've been very lucky in the North West - we've only had a sprinkling of snow (the fields are mottled green and white), and feel a bit guilty (but very grateful) about the white chaos all around us.

It has been very cold of course, with windchill taking the temperature down to way below what the thermometer says. But this is good - as long as we can keep the parlour and troughs ice free - as we can at last get some muck out. The fields are not all mottled green and white - some are now a dirty shade of brown. Henry and James have also been hedging, and I would have taken some photographs as they are quite near the house - but it's too cold to be standing about.

It's all go inside and outside the new classroom today. We've got plasterers inside, and stone facers outside.

Surprisingly January has been a dryish month, with less than an inch of rain so far. One of our buildings gets water from a large storage tank, which is fed by the water from the nearby roofs. This supply is getting low, so today we are swapping back to mains. I'm sure it will only be a temporary measure - the rain can't be far away.