Winter draws on

If you're having to work outside this week

Up on the roof in January

It was freezing. I’d made a rookie error when I’d set off at 5am, in thinking a vest was a base layer enough - but this is not so when you’re up high in January.

I’d been up on the scaffolding around a Cotswold rooftop, admiring the work of an extraordinary stonemason, and whilst I had proper safety kit on, my layers beneath had …