Like most people we had been trying not to use our heating as we went into winter because of soaring energy bills, but when overnight forecasts for -6°c and -7.5°c arrived we set a couple of radiators to come on for an hour in the morning before getting out of bed. Even with the radiators on, this still happened - it was like living inside a Christmas card. Oh well, Christmas is coming, after all ...
On Tuesday morning we woke up to a winter wonderland: our windows figured with ice landscapes from a different world, all on the insides of our windows. Yes, the insides - it was very cold. Like most people we had been trying not to use our heating as we went into winter because of soaring energy bills, but when overnight forecasts for -6°c and -7.5°c arrived we set a couple of radiators to come on for an hour in the morning before getting out of bed. Even with the radiators on, this still happened - it was like living inside a Christmas card. Oh well, Christmas is coming, after all ... The cold continued for nearly the whole week (falling just one day short of our entitlement to receive cold weather payments from the government). Our windows in the house didn't start to clear of frost until the weekend. It was a dark but sparkling week of scraping ice off the car and defrosting it at 6.30every morning so I could get to work on time. I am eternally grateful for B's help in doing this good deed every day.
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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