A silent slide show of pictures from our departure in Worthing to a walk we had yesterday lunchtime, to stretch our legs, get a little exercise, and make angels in the snow.

To flu or not to flu?

This is apparantly a flu virus bug thingy - and it is easy to see why your nose and chest gets irritated by gazillions of these nasty things multiplying in your body. I had a flu jab in autumn, so I am guessing that my lurgy this Christmas has not been a proper flu, just a really bad coldy coughy sort of thing that makes you miserable. What women call 'man-flu' in their unkinder moments.

The flu carnage in Britain is the worst since 1999 apparantly, and the strain that is doing the damage is called Brisbane Flu this year. I understand that flu strains ar named after the city in which they are first identified.

 

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Mark has man-flu. Not nice just before a full house at Christmas. In spite of having flu shots this year. The problem with colds now is the havoc it seems to play with my asthma. Oh well, I think I shall go and read some of my favourite Eeyore quotes now. Sigh.

First snowball fight

Ashleigh hits a bullseye!

On the same day that we experienced our first English snow, Ashleigh had her first ever sight of the white stuff. The picture is breakfast-time before work, in Oxford, and she has just thrown a snowball at Julie, who looks really happy about the bonding experience. The location is their garden. Photo by Ed

Frozen Dew

Our car was completely covered in a thin layer of ice yesterday. Temperatures have dropped this week, and our thoughts of a very first cold and northern hemisphere Christmas got more real. The temptation is to simply throw a jug of hot water on the windscreen ... but sadly that is not good for windscreens! So we learn from watching others in the street with their ice scrapers. Tonight, my weather feed is telling me that we have zero degrees and freezing rain outside, so I am glad for our central heating. It's been a fun day, getting many small jobs done and the house ready for the family arrival on Sunday.