After last week's blissful warmth the weather is doing its best to be beastly, with -2C in the garden last night and sudden, heavy showers of hail, snow and 'snail' - snowy hail - all of which have helped bring to an end an exceptional year for....
....the scarlet elf cup fungi in Dunrobin Woods: these are the only remnants I could find of the 70+ we counted.
The weather encourages us either to take walks in the woods, where there is some protection from the elements, or along open beaches where brisk exercise helps work up some warmth, so today we drove the six miles north to Brora, partly to put some petrol in the car as there is no service station in Golspie.
Brora has a beautiful beach for stretching the legs but it's lacking in interest at this time of year, though things will change in a few weeks when the arctic terns start nesting there. So today we had to be content with....
....views along the beach which reminded me of mirages on a flat Sahara plain and....
....a few moments' excitement when gannets started diving into the sea to be joined by what looked like quite a large pod of dolphins.
After last week's blissful warmth the weather is doing its best to be beastly, with -2C in the garden last night and sudden, heavy showers of hail, snow and 'snail' - snowy hail - all of which have helped bring to an end an exceptional year for....
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