Over night we had a bit of snow and it was once again very cold on our webbed feet. The ponds are pretty iced up at the moment and the water input was frozen over. This did get sorted out today and there is now a bit more swimming area in the pond as some of the ice has defrosted. We are now a little less worried that the fox can visit us over the ice in the night - he did last night - we saw the foot prints in the morning!! Fortunately all were ducks were 'present and correct' as far as I can tell in the morning.
Lyn, the daytime Restaurant Manager loves Christmas - she has been counting the days to get the trees up in the restaurant. Today we watched as the snow was shaken from the trees (provided by Arkle Plants in the Craft Centre) and taken inside. The tree by the window looks lovely, all lit up, there are two others that we cannot see so well from the garden, one of them by the roaring log fire. Lyn has been singing carols all afternoon while she was decorating the trees - however her colleagues begged her to stop as it was driving customers away!! We have proper carol singers to look forward to, on Christmas Eve (the Grafton Singers will be in the conservatory from 11:30am).
The big tree outside will go up very soon and the lights go up tomorrow, with all this snow it looks really festive, even if most folk want to get inside to have a hot drink!
There are some other birds in the garden at the moment - a large Red Kite and an Owl - neither much of a threat, as they are wooden sculptures from artist John Moss - these lovely sculptures are not expected to be here long as they will make ideal Christmas presents for wildlife lovers. John exhibited his work here in our annual sculpture trail last September and his work sold so well that he sent us some more for Christmas.
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| John Moss making one of the Owls that we have at the front of the Craft Centre |
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