What a contrast

So we are now back in CHILworth.  Never was a place so aptly named.  What a contrast from last week in the tropics.  Last Saturday, we were walking through rainforest to the base of Minyon Falls and then swimming in the pool with the water beating down on us and searing us with an almighty roaring wind.  This Saturday, Harry and i walked around our usual circuit walk through the woods and half was delightful, through the snowy trees, the other half resemble antartica with a stiff and icy wind, going uphill through drifting snow with horses begging us to take them home with us. 
Today some friends came for lunch and then we all walked up the big hill near us and had all sorts of things to sled down on: plastic bin bags, bits of plastic, one sled.  It is quite a big hill so you got to go very fast ans a long way, and then you have to walk back up.  Everyone was a bit cold and wet but could not have been happier.  So we had the good bit of high summer at the beach, playing in the surf, and now the good bit of low winter playing in the snow.  School is back tomorrow...