I (Neil) visited Artouste Fabreges today. It's around 50 minutes from our house. A quiet, small resort with about 70% boarders to 30% skiers. The sky was bluebird, the temperature was up and the snow felt perfect. Soft on the piste, natural hits all over the mountain.
I don't know why I like pictures of ski lifts.
Tracked powder
The combination of outfit colour and mightyness of leap caused the lens cover to squint
Looking along the Ossau Valley
Pic du Midi d'Ossau 
Freshly made American pancakes, creme fraiche, maple syrup and a cup 'o' rosy lee to get me started
Sunny, but icy. New snow is needed
Monday morning traffic
Au revoir monsieur Fox
Here lie the remnants of a silly fake fireplace
Today we patched up more of Hen Manor, and repaired a wee chicken doorway
Selected seeds for our forthcoming veg patch
And knocked up a bird table and bracket out of scraps
Over the coming days we're going to turn this run down wee barn into a palace for our forthcoming hens
Hardly fox proof at the moment
Or weather proof
Amongst the wreckage were petrol cans, rat poison, fruit boxes, a patterned tie, corn cobs and random bits of rubber, plastic and wood, and some old medicine for good measure
Not to mention the remnants of booze
I've got wood
Clean
Clean
Not sure what lives in here
Mistletoe, all over the shop here. Seeing it was 6 quid a sprig in Liberty's I think it's a viable earner.
Big D
This bridge is down the lane from our place. No idea where it once led to, but it doesn't anymore.
Must've been 14 degrees today. Too nice.
Note nerdy twitcher's binoculars. Thanks mum.
