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The Deep Mid-Winter
Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Tuesday, 22nd, December 2009
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I CRACKED the birdbath this morning, trying to knock the ice out of it. Frost seems to make the plastic brittle. Its plastic stand, on the other hand, bent in summer heat and I cracked that when trying to straighten it.
I looked out late on Sunday afternoon and decided not to clear the driveway because sleety snow was starting to fall on top of the afternoon’s fresh snow. When I came to clear it the morning after it had partially melted then refrozen overnight, so it required more effort scraping up shards of snow, rather than scooping up the soft, fluffy fresh variety.
Even so, I couldn’t dislodge the deep-