While our winters have become milder and less predictable, a freezing spell can make life harder in rural places, throwing the focus back upon the importance of community cohesion and neighbourly interaction.
Though it is enlivening and exhilarating, working outdoors in the sort of ‘proper winter’ many of us love, is hard. For me, it’s the stubbornly frozen gate padlocks or barn-door bolts, far from a source of hot