Update: 12 Dec 2017 07:21 -11.4C (11.4F)  far too cold to take photos! I remember my hand freezing to a metal gate, fortunately I was wearing gloves.  Keeping the water liquid for the hens was a every hour on the hour task as it refroze so quickly.  We had a run of 12 days where the temperature fell below freezing.

Previous Low: 30 Nov 2016 06:63 -7.5C (18.5F)
This morning 30 November 2016 at 06:38 we recorded our lowest all time temperature -7.5C (18.5F), I’ve only been recording the weather stats since November 2013 so maybe it’s not that dramatic.  Having said that last year, 2015, the lowest temp was only -5C on the 20th Jan 2015 and in 2014 it got down to -6.7C on 30 Dec 2014 when we had almost two weeks of really cold weather over Christmas and into New Year.

Today is the third cold day in a row, we’ve been out first thing each morning and throughout the day breaking the ice on all the troughs and drinkers for the pigs, sheep and hens.Wisp doesn’t seem too perturbed she still can running over for a fuss.

The upside is that the sun is out and with not a cloud in the sky it great to be outside and then rush back into the kitchen to sit on the Rayburn when you’re frozen to the core.

The cold weather has slowed up the mole invasion, I guess the ground is so hard it’s not as easy to dig through. In the last few weeks there must be upwards of a hundred mole hills in Kiwi’s field, it’s looking more like a battlefield than pasture.