Anyone home?

We woke to a crispy morning. The lawn was glistening with a thick, white frost. I suggested we had brekkie first and then head up to the point de vue for a bit of a stretch, and to get us moving.

At the top, as we sat overlooking the village, I said to Brian “I wonder what everyone is doing?”. I’m always fascinated when the village is so quiet, I ponder whether the villagers are at home doing homely things, or out and about.

We could see at least four chimneys puffing out smoke, so we knew some of them were settling in the warm.

My pondering over, we headed back home to start our day. I had a beef casserole I wanted to make, it’s a Flemish recipe which uses a dark ale to help make the gravy, rich and flavoursome - so I set about that.