Brrr, warm up with memories of Summer

So, today I have on my thermals, scalf, gloves etc and I'm inside. The girls are at school, although it was touch and go as to wether we would make it. As we walked to school the rain instantly turned to sheet ice, black ice, the kind you cannot see ICE. Not easy wielding book bags, packed lunch boxes, two little hands and maintaining upright. But we did manage to get there safely, thanks to kindly neighbours salting paths and human chains to ferry us across the bits with no handholds. Quite, quite scary...... So to cheer and warm me up I thought back to last summer when we had friends to visit, and the paddling pool was out, the children were playing with the hose pipe and all was, well -  warm. Tomatoes were growing in the greenhouse, buttercups in the lawn, licking ice lollies to cool down. A far cry from todays ice that nearly had us fall down. Roll on spring....!