DANCE OF JOY!

There's a rule in our UK-based family... whenever the weather reaches 10 degrees in winter - we do the Dance of Joy. (Because Spring is on the way)

So....
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Lekker!

Tsvangirai becomes Zimbabwe's PM

Wow.

Midwinter Waking

Paws there. Snout there too as well.
Mustiness. Mould. Darkness; a desire to stretch, to scratch.
Then has the-?
Then is it-?
Nudge the thatch, Displace the stiffened leaves: look out.
How cold, How dried a stillness. Like a blade on stone,

A wind is scraping, first this way, then that. Morning, perhaps, but not a proper one.
Turn.
Sleep will unshell us, but not yet.

Midwinter Waking, Phillip Larkin

...Yup - that about sums it up!!

SNOW BUSINESS

Today I made my first ever snowman.

Lekker.