<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/garden-squirrelfeb15.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2466" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/garden-squirrelfeb15-300x225.jpg" alt="garden-squirrel(feb15)" width="300" height="225" /></a>Jane has an awful cold at the moment made all the worse by her low immunity due to the chemotherapy. So today when it was wet and cold it was going to be a day at home, no going out, keep warm and plenty of cups of tea. The log burner soon had the house toastie.

Jane couldn't resist leaping out of bed when she saw this <a title="Grey Squirrel" href="http://www.mammal.org.uk/species-factsheets/Grey%20squirrel" target="_blank">squirrel</a> in the trees whilst I was having breakfast downstairs. She watched him stripping the bark from one of the lime tree branches and then scamper up to a dray . He was using the material to insulate his home.

As the day went on, after reading the paper, Jane carrying on with sorting her stamp collection we turned to the internet for amusement. Before we knew it we had bought a pair of shoes for Jane and I'd spent a fortune on a laptop. This cold, wet, miserable days can be very expensive.