A short walk along the Royal Military Canal

Boy was it freezing!  

Back in the 00's we were told that with global warming that the south-east of the United Kingdom, i.e. where I live in Kent, would have a "Mediterranean Climate".

The Mediterranean at the closest point to my house is around 700 miles. Roughly about Marseille. Meteo France has today's average to be 16° Centigrade. In Kent it is 1°C. Might not seem much but when you think it's January 12th.... Overnight it's 9°C, and here it's -2°C!  

Okay, in Canada it might be worse, but we don't have things in place to make this the "norm"!

The farmers were told they needed to adapt to that massive temperature increase and grow Mediterranean crops! 

Instead, we have solar farms and thousands of houses going on the land.

The ice and frost on the roads meant that we didn't want to keep Reggie out too long. I guess we are lucky on our roads that we never see the gritter out putting down sand and salt to keep the roads free for traffic. So there's no danger that he will step in something nasty.

They didn't bother when we had a bus service and so every time it was freezing,  thousands, especially the elderly, were stuck at home or risk a few broken bones walking.

So the walk was a mixture of frozen ground, iced puddles from the rain earlier in the week and cold wind. The sun was out melting the ice where it touched the ground turning everything to mud.

I did shoot a few shots on the Sony Cyber-Shot.

It looks as though there's a mark on the lens! It's an old camera dating back 20 years. It was released in January 2005.