It would be so good if the warm colours of our sunrises could be translated into warm temperatures on the ground but the snow that fell on the first day of the new year, and which has been added to several times in the last couple of weeks, is nothing if not persistent.
So large swathes of the farmer's fields are still covered in what are now frozen snowdrifts, the track which we follow so often is dangerous underfoot and, closer to home, our....
....garden pond is still a solid block of ice.
As expected, the village, being closer to the sea, has lost much of its snow but last night's hoar frost was still coating surfaces and making the pavements lethally slippery.
All our day-to-day grocery shopping is at the little Co-Op in Main Street where I never cease to be amazed how wide the stock range is, considering how small and cramped the floor area. It's a cheerful place but life for both staff and customers has been made more difficult by a failure in the computing system which means that all transactions are now cash-only. The problem has been continuing for several days and isn't confined to the Golspie branch.
Maybe it's a cyber attack - after all, the Marinera, the Russian tanker recently seized by the Americans in the North Atlantic, is reported to be anchored nearby, in the Moray Firth.
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