Fresh Clean Frost

White Cover For The Fens

    Now this is the kind of winter morning I like, cold fresh with a thick coating of frost yet that tiny hint of sunshine lost under those grey clouds. The sound of game birds on the fields behind us add to the feel, a group of five cock pheasants walking picking at the soil make a stunning picture with those wonderful colours moving between the frost coated grasses.
   It's a later cuppa for me this morning as I got carried away cleaning beads ready to photograph and list this evening and I have to admit this bowl of hot porridge went down a treat, a nice warm start to the day. Yesterday was the first time this year I had to fill the stone hot water bottle that I use to keep my feet warm when working, it was the first really cold day in the barn, a sign of things to come I'm guessing.
   This morning I opened the ceramic kiln to find the selection of pots I had bisque fired all safe and well so with any luck I'll get to glaze them later this week and just maybe list a couple on etsy to see what feedback they get, fingers crossed.
   A good friend told us about those wheatbags you can buy to heat and wear so we are hoping we can afford a couple later in the month to wear while we work, at the moment our only source of heat in the barn is electric and to be totally honest we can't afford to use it, with the next couple of months heading our way when sales will be next to nothing as they are already, the last thing we need is to use lots of electric. I have a feeling this winter is to be a real challenge to us work wise, all I ask is that we get through it ok with the bills paid, I don't give a monkeys fart about anything else just that we get bills paid and we stay ok health wise. In a way I'm looking forward to it, it will be hard and to say I'm not worried would be a lie but we are up for it and if I have to pack up making beads then at least I can say I gave it my all, I always did that in sport and have done in work, so touch wood we get to the spring still sitting making beads and still loving every second doing so.
   Now it's time to get back to the barn, the sun is out and the morning frost is melting into the garden so it may turn out to be a nice clear day, lets hope so, enjoy your day.