Over the last week the weather has turned milder but it hasn’t resulted in any drier days. At the moment it looks like this December will follow a similar pattern to the last few Decembers and finish up with the month ending on a mild note.

However, that’s by no means certain judging from the weather models. They’re predicting a cold spell of weather starting around Christmas Day and lasting into the New Year. The models are also suggesting a sudden stratospheric warming event will occur, most likely early on in January, although that’s not guaranteed to give us a cold spell of weather.

One of our wood pigeons isn’t content with munching its way through our fruit and vegetables and has taken a liking to sitting on the wind vane of my weather station.

It doesn’t stop the wind speed measurement cups from spinning around but the wind direction remains fixed whilst it perches on the wind vane. It can be there for some considerable time.

Despite the wet weather through the week we did manage a visit to Nostell Priory with Ruby on Thursday afternoon in between bouts of rain. It meant some areas of the grounds were rather boggy and Ruby did a pretty decent job of finding them.

I don’t think that there is meant to be a small lake in this field at Nostell Priory. Whilst Ruby didn’t find any large puddles to run in she did seem to find plenty of muddy areas.

The first job when we got back home was to give Ruby a quick shower, something she’s not at all keen on.