Brrrr....!

After our white Christmas in America we came home to relative mild though where told that we had missed a week of cold, ice, frosts and freezing fog. The boss's mother who was staying over Christmas and New Year told us she had not been out of the house for three days because of the ice. Lucky us!
But a week later the snow arrived and because the ground was so cold it stayed around.

Quite nice when the sun finally shone...

Not sure that the horses enjoyed it too much....

The fountain turned out to be our daily "weather vane"!

The swans and ducks had a struggle keeping their swimming hole!