Today it is cold but there is no snow. Photos on facebook from my daughter in Edinburgh show her family building snowmen - photos from down South show trouble on the roads.
We're still decorating, but while we were wating for the paint to dry, we went down to Jubilee Park.
It was so cold today that the frost hadn't melted. This accentuated the old ridge and furrows system that were created by farmers in the nineteeth century to improve land drainage, They differ from the medieval ridge and furrow in being straight and narrower.
The furrows in Medieval times had a curved shape and were made by the plough turning at the end of an open field, eventually creating an S shaped feature.
By piling up the soil into ridges it would also increase the acreage of land being used.
There you go - a bit of history......
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