Snowed in boats on the Lancaster Canal
Well this is the sight we found to greet us down at the marina this morning when we went to check out the boat. Never have we seen it like this although it has been icy on the cut' before ,just not this bad! However it did look glorious in the winter sunshine with the frost and ice twinkling away. Poor old ducks were all confined to one small patch of free water and were waddling ,slipping and sliding over the surface. I expect they are having a hard time at the moment like a lot of things. Last January we were out on the canal for a trip as it was so mild but I think that it will be somewhile before we can do the same this year. We have a bit of a turf war going on in the garden at the moment as two rather large Mistle thrushes have moved in on the apples I was putting out, much to the disgust of my resident Fieldfare , who up until now had them solely to himself. So there has been a lot of charging and chasing going on. Why can't they just share,.....