Iceland, Now With Added Ice

It's started to freeze, which is nice. Ambient temperature about -1ºC, wind makes it feel a bit colder. I went to the open air swimming-pool yesterday, which was an exercise in the contrast between toasty limbs and a frozen head. The Tjörn is happily freezing over,

but the ducks and geese have shown little or no inclination to head off to warmer climates yet. This means that they are all gathering together in the unfrozen bit of the Tjörn, and they may be about to conglobulate themselves together into a ball in order to spend the winter at the bottom of the lake. The sun is also setting earlier than usual: this photo was taken at about three pm.