Its January, normally the time of Jack Frost and blankets of white, mittens and snowballs...well not tis year!
El Nino seems to have put paid to all that white stuff in East Anglia for 2016 , which could be one of the warmest (not to mention wettest and windiest!) on record in the UK.
The mild weather also has our plantlife well and truly fooled, with primroses and daffodils nodding alongside snowdrops and aconites. So, instead of a classic snowy winter's scene, this January's blog is of a winter's walk amongst the silver birch catkins at Narborough.
Nodding catkins, a harbinger of spring still some months away
Evergreen bramble leaves are a welcome sight of green
Winter light has a wonderful glow
A rare blue sky day amidst the brutal sou'westerlies of winter 2016
Mild winters can cause unusual numbers of pests