Sunday 28 February
I woke this morning with a satisfactory feeling of having a deep and long sleep. My mind and body felt well-rested and thankfully my sneezing had stopped. That said, I decided not to venture any further than my back garden this morning and only maybe would I go for a shirt dog walk later. One of those ‘let’s see how it goes’ days.
I may have woken with a little more metal clarity but the view outside was far from clear. “It’s foggy out there” I proclaimed to Lisa as I nudged the bedroom door open with my elbow. I put a couple of mugs of coffee on our bed side cabinets and picked up my phone to check the weather forecast for the rest of the day. “Actually it’s mist,” I said, “I’ve never known what the difference is.”
So, it turns out that it’s all about viewing distance. If you can see further than a kilometer it’s mist, if it’s less it’s fog. Oh, and haze is different altogether. Both fog and mist are condensed water droplets, formed when warm air passed over colder air (or colder ground or water). Haze is formed by dust particles, not water.
An opportunity to get out into the back garden and do a bit of a clear up and cut back. Then a fire to get rid. Some goes on the compost heap. The crackling and popping is quite therapeutic. As is watching the flames flicker and ripple, and the smoke rises into a cloudy sky where the sun is forcing it’s way through.
1pm and finally the sun has made its way through. All of the cloud has burnt away as has all of the garden rubbish. Lisa has made leek and potato soup and now a cup of tea. Simple pleasures.
I’ve just been round to see Dad after our dog walk this afternoon. The walk was beautiful and the late afternoon sunshine in our eyes and on our faces, just as the air was beginning to chill, was a real treat.
I took a bird feeder over to Dad. It will be great to attract some different species to his garden. It’s currently just pigeons that come in to drink from the water dish. And whilst I was round there I saw a brick propping up a waste water pipe out side. Brilliant.
The Bald Birder 