{"id":18635,"date":"2022-01-28T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18635"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:19:16","slug":"brrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/brrrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Brrrr!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night was probably the coldest night of the year. It was certainly the coldest night that I can remember in my caravan and even as I type this in the early afternoon, it’s still freezing outside with a heavy ground frost and the water supply to the caravan is still frozen. Luckily I anticipated this and took the measures that I’ve worked out to avoid it causing me problems.<\/p>\n

Before going to bed, I put some cold water in the washbasin to which I can add some hot water for washing and shaving in the morning, and I fill up both my Brita filter jug and my kettle. Then if, like this morning, my water supply is frozen I can still have a freshen up and use boiling water to unfreeze my outside tap which I can use until my caravan water supply eventually unfreezes. Then so long as I keep my jug and kettle full, in the albeit unlikely event that my outside tap freezes again during the day (it nearly did earlier on) I can boil up some water to unfreeze it again.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t like this a couple of days ago. I was up before 8.00am just as the sun was getting itself ready to peep over the horizon and with the light ground frost that had descended during the night, the images presented were magical.<\/p>\n

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If you click on the following photo to enlarge it you’ll see two small deer silhouetted under the large tree. Earlier on they had come trotting across onto my land and on finding my new fence barring their way had turned back in the direction from which they’d come.<\/p>\n

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In the next shot you can see them scampering off to the right before turning again and disappearing off into the distance down the slope on the left. <\/p>\n

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It’s a pity that by building a fence to keep the wild boar out I’ll also discourage other animals like the deer but maybe that won’t be a bad thing once I’ve got a garden that has been planted. I recall very clearly that one evening in my old house I was admiring the lovely plants that I and my neighbour Chantal had spent hours placing in the pots and tubs out front only to find that their tops had all been neatly cropped off in the morning!<\/p>\n

Here are some more shots of the lower section of my land and the small valley beyond.<\/p>\n

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See if you can spot the fox (‘reynard’ in French) in this last one. Clue – he’s just the other side of the fence to the top left of it, moving right to left. <\/p>\n

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Even at this distance he must have caught my scent because although I kept perfectly silent he stopped, turned to face me and then shot off at full speed in the opposite direction across the valley before disappearing into the bushes on the other side. I feel so privileged to be sharing this environment with all of these amazing creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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