Snow flakes on noses

Twas very very cold today.

I didn’t want to leave the house.

But I did.

Don’t know if I have mentioned this before but after my dad died ….. he was reincarnated.  First in body of our Dog.  I came in one night really, really drunk; and
Said Dog was sitting at door waiting for me.

I looked at the disapproving look on her face and said ‘oh that’s the kind of look dad used to give me;  if you are Dad. Go up to the top of the stairs and lay down.

AND THE DOG DOG COMPLETELY THAT.

A few years later I was driving to work. Not concentrating and I pulled up at a roundabout contemplating anything but the road… and then I saw him.  Sitting on a hedge looking at me in the EXACT same way.

My dad had been reincarnated as a buzzard

So I had cardboard which had to go to skip today because I keep tripping over it in the hall… on my way back … there was my dad. Sitting on the pavement.  Just sitting.  Not on a tree, not on a fence.  Not on a lamppost.  On the pavement

I took it as a sign.  So I pulled in a little way on and turned and came back. I couldn’t see him on the return so I did the same again in the opposite direction and when I came back this time. There he was.

So I pulled up in front of him and pulled my camera out.   Dad never wants his photo taken and true to form he was jumping all over that pavement.  - see extra.

I thought he wanted to tell me that his wing was sore or something but then he jumped into the air and flew up to a hedge and then down into the field

I think he just wanted to say hello.

(Si says was probs just struggling with the wind - it was super blowy today)

None of those photos were brilliant and therefore you get the snowdrops in the garden.

In other news.  

The garden gate blew off in the wind today. Bloody annoying; and Si painted the stairway battleship grey.   (Its walnut really but he can’t see it )

And also - Si made Fish Tacos which were brilliant.