Today's weather has had a distinctive 'west coast' feel to it, raining most of the time with the clouds low over the hills and temperatures struggling to reach double figures. This comes after a week of strong winds and, on some nights, plunging temperatures, with the result that....
....some of the vegetables we've planted out have suffered from frostbite, the dwarf beans in particular.
However dreich the weather we walk every day, today across the Golspie Burn and up into Backies to collect very large brown free range eggs from a smallholding at £1.50 for six.
We returned through the woodland along Golspie Glen, stopping for a few minutes at the town's Skating Pond - this certainly didn't freeze over this winter and one wonders when it last did. We're hoping to see dragonflies on it - not in this weather - but its only resident was....
....Mrs Mallard who was not too keen on our arrival, her unwillingness to take off and find somewhere undisturbed quickly explained when....
....she was joined by two ducklings.
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