The short thaw has gone. We had more snow, then a couple of bitterly cold days.
Today the temperature stayed around -8C all day. It's dark now and even colder.
I thank God that every morning my car has started first turn of the key!
Everything here is still running. Buses, trains and planes, unless you are heading for London. Everything has come to a halt there, and thousands of folk are stuck at the airports and train stations unable to leave the country.
We did some more re-organisation in the house today, but more still to do. We will be ready for Christmas!
Tomorrow some furniture we do not need will be picked up by a Charity group, and I have someone to take over to the airport for a flight to France.
We are in the last few days of the season of Advent.
Advent is a time of penance and preparation for Christmas.Last night, as part of our preparation we got to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Our priest remarked that in his 40 years as a doctor, many people unburdened themselves to him at a time he could give advice and medicine, but not Absolution, which was really what they were seeking.
Now as a priest, he can give that Absolution, but hardly anyone now goes to Confession any longer.
There was a time when everyone went to confession regularly. What makes people believe that they have no need of the great help this Sacrament can bring us?
As Catholics, we are bound to confess our sins at least once a year.
Maybe today we do not commit as many sins as we did in the past, and therefore do no need to seek God's forgiveness. That's what it will be. Aye......right.
Photos taken today in the garden today.
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