June in February

A couple of weeks ago it was into the garden with the boiling water to unfreeze the birds' drinking bowl - scooped-out ice-domes sat unthawed for days. Today it was like June: we walked up the West Mendip Way and marvelled at the mellow warmth: Clare snapped the author in his fetching blue-grey teeshirt.

Here's Wells cathedral from our high vantage point.