A day spent wearing wellies in the sunshine is a good day

Even in the winter. And especially if you're being paid for it. Yesterday I spent all the daylight hours in a field in the Borders, lugging heavy rucksacks and bags of equipment around, climbing over fences, paddling across rivers, pumping lots of boreholes and taking lots of water samples. The temperature didn't get above freezing all day. And the sun shone on us from dawn till dusk. Sometimes my job is great.