Saturday

A nice walk of a little under 5 miles this morning. Up Shipley hill towards the Nottingham lodge, downhill towards Shipley Village and returning via the abandoned theme park, Ilkeston Hospital and Heanor road. Quite a lot of the snow has now melted - although there is still plenty left - but after last night's hard frost (down to -7C in our garden), the paths were treacherously slippery and it was pretty difficult keeping our feet.I see the forcast for tomorrow, which earlier in the week was supposed to be heavy snow, has been altered on the BBC website, to light rain - we'll see!