A testing night, for us and for many others. High winds, cold, the wood stoves are struggling to keep up – we have no storm windows yet on much of the house, the wind is really felt, the stoves going, we need more firewood, this is a determined and relentless winter, we are so lucky when we think of those many people in sub-zero weather with no power. We went out and tried tto clean out the Pole Barn, we put some old hay down for the donkeys. Got a shot of Red at last light, holding the sheep, as he always does. There is some relief from the bitter cold into next week, I am struck again and again by how shared an experience this is, there are several hundred people on my Facebook pages talking to each other about the weather, people from all over the country and much of the world.

The Bedlam idea has touched a lot of people