12th February, 2017...Arctic winds at Furness Abbey!

Brrrr....what is going on...it's freezing! Standing outside on dinner duty every day for forty minutes is killing me...don't know how dinner ladies do it.....especially my mad 75 year old mother!! The field full of herdies at Furness Abbey have got the right idea....keep your winter coats on!

We kept ours on too!

Hillmans seem to be 'last man standing' today....many family members, including Frankie , have got the dreaded 'lose your voice' bug....met my boss down here today...she has it too!

Just a lonely tea and coffee at Abbey Mill today!

Still looking lovely down here though, but the violet skies are definitely  pointing to snow!

Lovely family gathering this weekend, and the food at Oscars, and the newly refurbished Swan Hotel, was excellent!

The Swan had a really rough time of it after the Christmas 2015 floods, but the refurbishments are excellent and well worth a look. Well, we're on to phase three of the building works ourselves.....

...retaining walls built...excellent work by Brown and O'Neill builders.....

.....front door done....excellent work by Mike Doddings from Clear View.....

...drive work next.......then, who knows!!!