The day-time temperature is -3C. In fact the day-time temperature has not risen above zero for a week or 10 days by now and the night time temperature is usually -2C to -4C and has been down to -8C or more. So the ground has been rock solid for quite a while and the ponds frozen. As you will see ...
Currently there is a display Butterflies in the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley (18 January - 22 February 2009) on at Wisley. See also the BBC web-page Butterflies offer winter escape.
Below are a few of the butterflies when we could actually find them among the foliage.
The river was very high again and some parts of the riverside path inaccessible. Large areas of the golf-course opposite were also flooded.