Looking outside this morning (or up through the slightly dirty skylight in our dining room) it was clear that the weather forecast was right about the temperatures descending to freezing and below as we start to move into 2025. It’s a good job I got up to the allotment yesterday to recover all the plants that I uncovered to make the most of last week’s mildness! Cold is like to continue until at least the early part of this week and possibly for much of January although it is, after all, winter.

I took the opportunity to take this photo, using the iPad which I had to hand. I’ve left it unprocessed as it is the kind of image I might want to use for something like a texture in future and that gives me more options for how to pull it one way or another.