winter

It's been such a mild autumn that some of the young spring blossom trees got confused and flowered again. There have been one or two very light frosts, and that's all.

No more. This morning I opened to the curtains to find condensation on the inside of the double-glazed windows even in the cooler rooms, and the frost lies thick enough to make the playing fields in the park stark white. It's *cold* out there...