K & TBM, many thanks for your kind thoughts on the possibilities of keeping my extremities warm in Winter...(-: Heinz, I am pleased you liked the picture. The countryside hereabouts is very green, as the result of the rather large amount of rain we Scots are well used to, especially on the West coast..(-: I do indeed feel fortunate to live where I do, just a field distant from the outer edge of suburbia, thus not even a traffic light between me and interesting generally quiet roads and scenery. However part of the Covid effect seems to have been that the population have discovered the countryside in a BIG way, thus the former quiet places have seen walkers, cyclists, parked cars and traffic like never before, which is quite a change...Fortunately such is our population that as yet we tend not to get "rammed" as it seems Richard describes in his part of the world .... Perhaps this is to be expected as the new normal, I guess..?