Despite hoping that the kit would somehow test itself, Nick left for work again this morning just before eight. We had a late night last night so I didn't surface until sometime after nine, with Jnr following shortly after.
A little more snow overnight but nothing spectacular and in fact, it seemed to be melting before my eyes as I gazed out over the hills and tried to shake off the morning blur.
So, determined to make most of the remaining snow today....we built a snowman! First one this winter as the previous snowfall was powder. This time its proper cohesive snowman making stuff. Very proud of our efforts. We've also made gingercake and some shortbread for Nick and went walking in the forest for a couple hours. Jnr is well into tracking at the moment. Given that he is only four years of age and can successfully distinguish 'rabbit, um...maybe a squirrel' poomp-prints (footprints) from 'definitely a puma mum' poomp-prints, I think it bodes well for a future as a naturalist. We (I) also dragged home a couple of fallen Scots Pine limbs for cutting up. Nothing like the smell of Scots Pine burning.
First weekend without scheduled running or cycling or anything. To be honest I thought I would go mad but snows falling thick and fast again, I'm about to light a log fire and kick back with a glass of warmed Rekorderlig. Apparently I can do dossing :)
Y'know, sometimes, dossing is THE best thing for a battery recharge (especially when cake is also in the equation!)? It's ace that you can share your dossing with a little fella who so appreciates the outdoors too, isn't it :-D
ReplyDeleteIt is! After I picked him up from school we went for a'noon tea and a browse through Waterstones. Tried getting him a book on identifying poomp-prints but ended up with a bug capturing and identification kit :) He's gone to bed with his eyes furtively scanning ceiling corners for unsuspecting spiders..
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