Blackbird days

The Days of the Blackbird (in Italy) - the last three in January. A white blackbird derides January for being so mild. Outraged January brings on bitter cold. The blackbird has to take refuge in a chimney for three days and never regains her original snowy white plumage. Indeed January is so pissed off he robs a day from February to make the blackbird suffer.

A truly dreadful day of snow, rain, hail, thunder, fierce nnw wind and orange warning for ice tonight across Tuscany. But at 17.13 there was a hopeful light high over Mt Falterona.