Frosty ....

16th January 2026 (Friday)     09.30 .... There's touch of frost this morning:  the thermometer

Low, last night,. was -1.2C;  it's now reading 0.1C .... so just above freezing!   But it's a nice,albeit cool, morning;  however there is the chance of light showers.    Luckily there's only a light breeze, so very little wind chill.   I'm going to charge 'The Buggy' battery today;  in fact I'll set that up immediately after this update.   

17.00    I've been a 'busy boy' today!    The |Buggy battery is fully charged;   so, the next time I am out on it, I'm going to have a longer potter around the villages.    I'll need a good weather forecast to do that.   Charging the battery didn't involve much in the way of 'work';   only plugging it in and unplugging it when it's finished ..... that's 5 hours later.

Maggie used to put the belt in the 'Hoover' (vacuum cleaner) back on when it came off;  I've never done it!.... until today!   The hoover stopped 'sookin' about a fortnight ago.   I (eventually) thought,  "the Hoover's no' sookin;  Maggie used to put the belt back on when it came off;  I wonder if that's the problem!".   That thought was followed almost immediately by another;  "if Maggie did it, it must be an easy job!".     Well;  Maggie had hidden talents, and sorting the Hoover belt was one of them!   Three screws have to be removed;  that was easy enough (until I dropped one of then);  getting the belt back on was the hard bit.    Anyway I eventually did it.... and got it back together, sookin' stuff up again.

Having done that (stressful) job, I was in need of a cuppa before going up to  Chapel Green, in the car, at sunset time.  The sun was behind a bank o' cloud most of the time, but it was nice enough, and not cold.   We'd had a shower in the middle of the afternoon so the grass was wet.   That's where today's photographs were taken.

21.30     I had two Robins in the kitchen today;  I'd left the back door open and they wandered in.   They weren't fechtin' so must be pairing up.   I left the kitchen door and the front door open and they wandered out.

I keep my eye on the BBC News Channel throughout the day;  and, of all the things happening around the world  today the one that caught my 'eye' was Maria Machado giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump.   I think that was wrong;  it demeans the Peace Prize using it for political gain.    Because that's why she did it.   Mind you President Trump could have 'graciously' refused it:  he could have said something like "sorry my lass, much as I appreciate you giving me your Nobel Peace Medal as a gift, it's really yours and I'd like you to keep it!"   I can't imagine President Trump saying that actually not the way I've written it anyway!   

 I can imagine the Nobel Peace Prize Committee thinking  harder about whom they chose as recipients in future.