Green and country in the city 11 February

• Light dusting of snow on Wednesday morning. The tops of cars looked like the tops of Victoria Sponges. Texted a friend who lives in Chingford not far from the edge of Epping Forest to see if he had snow but he was full of a bad cold and obviously thinking of nothing else!
• Heavy frost on Thursday morning and wildlife water bowl frozen. Had to bring it in and run the hot tap on it to melt the ice. Had the day off, and later in  a charity shop found a casserole dish. Not too nice for use as a wildlife water bowl and with an edge little birds can perch on. I did have 2 casserole dishes last winter, but one cracked in half!
• Thursday sunny so cycle ride through the Walthamstow wetlands - not much changed from last month.
• Saw 4 redwings on the bushes outside the bus garage at Leyton Green on Saturday.
• Decanted the Christmas pudding liqueur. Now to leave for 9 months (not in recipe, but experience tells me a wait makes far better flavoured liqueurs) so it will be ready for Christmas.
• Have sorted through most of my fabric. Got rid of a black bin of stuff that was just taking up space. Pity this has to go in bin rather than recycling. Also decided tiny cupboard can go - no where to put it, can't think of what I will put in it. Would have got it to the PDSA shop yesterday, but raining and I didn't have carrier bag big enough for it except a couple far too large.
• Last month supposed to have pruned fig while it was dormant - my fig is never dormant. This month prune currants but how to I tell how old the shoots are (I'm to get rid of 4-year old shoots)?