'Stately as a galleon .....'

Cold enough for black ice this morning ..... wish I'd put the grippers on my shoes before I took Togbe out. Things had improved a bit in the early afternoon but East Kilbride is always colder and there was still some thin ice on the loch. The swans just powered their way across the icy patches rather like two stately galleons.  I kept Togbe well away from them .... no love lost between the swans and one small Border Terrier.