I have had a bad back brewing for a while and today I woke feeling really sore. The best thing is to keep moving and hope that it eases. It's difficult though as the more it hurts, the tenser I become and the worse it gets. These old bones are not what they once were! I did manage to go for a walk with Nick and the girls to a place not far from the cottage where we have never walked before. It was magical, like walking into an ice encrusted wonderland. Everything was coated in a thick frost like jewels and the boughs of the trees were dripping with icicles.