A much better day, weather wise. After going to The Hope to vote, pick up messages and prescriptions, seeing folk we'd not seen for ages, I was able to be out in the garden. 
Still not very warm, but by the time I'd emptied one compost bin into the other, I had shed my body warmer and jumper and was down to my T shirt!  Satisfying work, to be physically doing something outside, and great to see so many worms too. With the compost turned and the middle bin emptied, I was able to reorganise that corner of the garden. It's become rather a dumping ground of late.
In the last month a lot has happened. We have had a letter from R&J's family's solicitor stating that we have taken unauthorised occupancy of the land which R&J, gave us before J's death, two years ago. We were given a week's notice to remove all our possessions and fencing from it. Anything we left on it would become property of the family at that date. The land is part of a large field which could potentially be sold for building.
This land adjoins our garden, it's where I have kept the hens for many years, have planted over a hundred cuttings of trees, dug a small wildlife pond and made a bog garden. It has been devastating. I had to re-home the hens, which has been the worst thing. I miss them so much. Every day. Feeding them was the first thing I did every morning. 
Lots of letters have gone backwards and forwards, we've talked to the Citizens Advice Bureau, taken legal advice but without a long, expensive legal battle, which we would be unlikely to win, there is nothing we can do. So far, physically, nothing has happened. The threats and intimidation are continuing, as are the insinuations, but we're okay.  And the sunshine certainly helps!