Walking Lucie on a cold, clear late afternoon, the temperature hasn't risen above plus one all day and there's no doubt that tonight it will drop to minus four or five. Fishing plans have been suspended because every waterway in the Fens has a coating of ice. The was one piece of clear water I noticed the day before, it was under a tree, and I could see fish moving there. Now it is frozen over but as a test I decided to drop half a brick on the ice and it just made a twanging sound and then skated away over the ice sheet for ten or twelve feet. This morning a change, it's minus three and freezing fog is setting in and getting thicker by the minute. Proper winter weather and home for a cup of hot tea I think.