winter draws on...
It's snowing outside, and the cat has decided that now he only moves from one warm place to another. On the other hand, he doesn't yell at us quite as much as he used to, perhaps he's beginning to understand that 'softly, softly catchee monkey'.The cows are back under cover, round the back of our house, and there has been quite a lot of fairly high decibel protest. This seems to have quietened down, maybe even cows aren't so dumb that they realise that they're better off out of the snow. One welcome sight and sound that we are getting a lot of now is the return of the migratory geese; great skeins of heavy birds against a sullen grey sky, and the distant sound of their chatter is a cheering sight on a winter day. The Arts correspondent was putting her car to bed one clear and frosty night, and was enchanted to hear the sound of a flock passing overhead
Although we've been having very clear nights, there has, as yet been no sign of the northern lights, we live quite near the University of Lancasters magnetometer, but sadly there has been very little sunspot activity this year. We live in hope, and as they now offer a text alert service as well as the e-mail warnings, there is a better chance that we might get to see them.
http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/rt_activity/
posted by Lampy @ 11/21/2008 10:13:00 am
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