Do they know it's Christmas?

It's just another day for them to survive the freezing weather!

These two were tucking in to Christmas lunch in my sister's garden.

Icy problems

The ice looks like a modern sculpture and makes a facinating sight but gradually the ice free area of our pond is closing. If it freezes over completely it will be bad news for the fish which incredibly can be seen still slowly swimming beneath the ice covered surface. If there is no hole in the ice the toxic gases created by organic matter decaying in the pond will not have any way to escape and could poison the fish so we'll have to keep an eye on things.

We have another problem in that our new heating system has packed up so happy days eh? More on Martyn's blog as I don't want to talk about it shudder, shudder, brrrr!

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Not exactly two turtle doves but as near as I could get in our garden.