Big Freeze at Alder Carp Lake

In central and eastern France the temperatures crashed down this week, on Friday morning we faced between -13 and -15 degrees C, not exceptional by global standards but setting a new PB for us as we walked Ruadhri to school.

Alder lake had frozen over, pretty much over night but we could see motion under the ice – fish – small roach were wriggling around, they acted like they were getting ready to spawn in the mild weather a couple of weeks ago, splashing around the tree roots.

Here is a short clip of them;