wintry walk not work

this afternoon, as nikki went off to do some shopping, me and monkey boy decided to sack off working in the barn and instead go for a wintry walk to see how high the river level was (seeing as the overflow from the spring has been flowing really heavily).

so the three of us set off (me, monkey boy and müca - the resident simple:lodge 'hunting cat' - who follows us on walks and stalks insects) on our jaunt.....

the river had loads of icicles on overhanging branches which looked cool:



monkey boy then waded across the river (he was wearing his wellies) and took this:



and this one of some nice bracket fungi:



müca after a spot of rock-hopping:



and a nice moscicle:



walking through a snow covered field monkey boy spotted this little fella just sitting on the snow:



and then i saw this one:



here's the view from the final corner on the track which descends to the house:



and one final shot which is taken from the same place but zoomed in so that you can enjoy the mountains in the distance:



it's not too shabby to look out over these views every single day i can tell thee.

despite being only marginally better at speaking 'cat' than i am at french i feel confident in proclaiming that a good time was had by all!

gairy.