The joy at a visible if fleeting sign of #NorthernWinter is real; if always allied to an awareness of what's wrong, and what's happening in #SouthernSummer. But take your joys. I sneaked up before work to Queens Wood, Highgate last week, a wonderful fragment of Oak-Hornbeam woodland, when the snow had fallen; watched a Redwing (Rotdrossel) gobbling ivy berries, too, a sight without which I don't think winter has properly happened #climatediary #klimatagebuch