Friday 18 December 2009

When the Wind is from the East.........

With temperatures at -4 the east wind was sharp enough to scrape the bristles from your chin. As if 40 years residence was already too much. At least some bright sunlight warmed a bit from time to time. The stretch of bridleway leading to the pastures can be the place to be in this kind of weather if you have a desire to slip and break a bone or two.
The new sheep on the pasture land don't look to me like the usual hardy hill breed and once or twice have appeared to resent their being compounded here.
They may yet discover a way to escape as one of the corner posts is leaning well over and there's a hole in the stock fence.
Sherlock Holmes would not need his magnifier to find a good clue to the culprit.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We Totley folk always shiver when the wind blows up Baslow Road & expect snow this time of year. It was certainly coming from that direction today.