Bloomin 'eck it's cold!!

Came out of work this morning to some rather beautiful ice crystals covering my car. I truly think nature is a wonderful thing but it's timing is rubbish! De-icing a frozen car after a twelve hour night shift is no fun!!

Today (and the last couple of days to be honest) is tinged with sadness, five years ago today I lost my brother, suddenly to a cardiac arrest, he was supposed to travel up from his home in mid wales to join our family get together on Boxing Day, he rang me on Boxing Day (Saturday) to say he had problems with his car and he would come on Monday instead. I didn't hear from him on Monday at all and although he was never good at keeping us informed about what he was doing I knew that he would have let me know if there had been a further problem. So in the evening I rang his neighbour and asked that they check on him, he was found on the floor of his cottage. Nobody had seen him since Boxing Day and I think that it was more likely that he had passed away then, but his death was dated from when he was found, it still breaks my heart to think of him alone. He would have been so proud of his nieces and their growing families that I blipped yesterday.
God bless you M, love always.