It's snowed non stop since the weekend and some roads are still blocked by drifts and abandoned vehicles but as you can see a mini thaw has begun.
So much so that I ventured out in the charabanc to check road conditions and river levels (we have no local gauges to watch online) and though the river was very high I was surprised to see the main mill pool, though really full was not really flowing hard which meant the river was being run off hard down a side channel a couple of hundred yards above the mill. I nearly turned back for the gear but didn't.
I figured that the forecast deep frost would bite pretty quickly giving my healing wrist gyp and trotting fingers and also hold back a big dump of snow melt and if the gates to the mill weren't opened overnight I'd have longer to have a go at a benevolent mill pool tomorrow.
A crunch across the fields before tea confirmed the plummeting temperatures and made the melt in the mouth beef shin ragu welcome home even more comforting.
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