I'm hoping that, by the time I go back, that flights will be back on schedule. My son tells me that right now no passengers are being allowed into the terminals at Heathrow unless they have booked in on line, thus being told that their flights will be tasking off. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, anyway.

Today I went to visit Leadfinger's mum, Mary. She will be 95 on Christmas Eve and isn't very mobile after a fall a while back. She is an amazing lady, still cheerful in spite of being housebound and in some pain from sciatica. I try to visit with her whenever I'm here - she always makes me laugh. If you have any spare good thoughts it would be nice to send them her way right now.

I wish that I had taken a camera with me today. We had freezing fog and temperatures below freezing and all the trees were white with frost. Against a grey sky the tracery of the branches and twigs was beautiful. Camera will stay in my bag from now on.