A WINTER'S TAIL.

February, in the northern hemisphere, is the last month of Winter.

We woke up this morning early as our bedroom was chillybilly, so after a very quick trip to the bathroom for us of us, we hopped into her bed for a cuddle with which to warm ourselves up.

A cuddle is always a good way to start our day for we felt warmer but she did put on a fleece and her new slippers, yes, it was that cold before going to YumYum HQ to cook eggs and make a thermos of LapySang tea.

She ate her eggs there and turned mine out into a dish, then we went back to bed, she switched on the laptop and I ate yummy eggs.

This oval egg timer, that goes into the water with the eggs and shows you how hard or soft they are, is wonderful, they were perfect.

"We weren't dreaming GeeGee, the temperature has dropped, they've forecasted icy conditions and snow for London today with low temperatures for the rest of this week" she said after reading a weather report article on line.

Shiver my timbers, I thought.. thank goodness I don't have to deal with life out there.

For apart from cold icy conditions on ponds and lakes, which mean that wild birds cannot drink, we have been greatly saddened to read about the poor seven swans who have contracted 'Avian Flu' in Windsor Park and are having to be put to sleep. 

It's highly contagious disease and we pray that this outbreak is a tiny one and that more birds of the many varieties that are on the waters in the Park have not been infected with it.

If you have avian livestock: ducks, chickens, geese. Please make sure that they are not able to come into contact with wild birds.

For the last very bad incident of avian flu was found to have started by a wild duck who had the disease landing on the pond and, thereby, infecting a flock of domestic ducks.

And before the poor woman, whose birds they were would do anything, it had spread to the chickens which were on the same farm.

This outbreak was responsible for the slaughter of thousands of domestic chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys in this country in order to contain the disease.  

So this bitterly cold weather means that more chores can be done today for we want for nothing, except a tidy flat! There's no reason for her to go out and about in this bitterly cold weather, she can collect her new glasses when we go to work on Wednesday.

But our thoughts go back to Winter, we are now in the first week of February which is the last month of the season but which can be brutally cold and she thought about August, the last month of Summer and how that month can be so warm.

And she marveled at things that she knows very little about: how the world rotates on its' axis, how it orbits the sun, our solar system that dashes around the centre of the Milly Way, things that go on every second of every day. 

How the seasons slide into each other, how plants and animals sense everything and prepare for each seasons change. 

February is the tail of Winter and this week, this Winter's tail appears to have a sting in it!

GeeGee Parrot.

February 5th, 2018.