Is It Getting Lighter?

I think it might be actually. just looking out of the window while typing this and it is still very light.  Not much sign of it getting warmer though, Vin is still doing his fires. Not quite rubbing sticks together but nearly! He does a really great job with a bit of kindling and birch bark and logs and then the Homefire type coal.  Doing a smashing job there mate. 
He has  done the bedding today as well, good job we have a tumble drier, makes you wonder just how people in the past managed without the modern appliances that we have today ?  I can remember coming home from school usually on a Monday to the aroma of  steaming washing drying round the fire on an assortment of clothes maidens! I doubt whether a modern youngster would know what a clothes maiden is.  Poor old mum she must have worked really hard in those days. 
Little Jessie was out with her daddy a bit today, and he was trying to get her to play, but she wouldn't. Naughty puss! She was funny at lunchtime. We were sitting having our lunch and she jumped down from her basket, and plonked herself in front of the fire, and settled down.  She looked for all the world as if she thought the fire was lit and would be nice and warm.  She did move after a bit when she must have realised that it wasn't. Aaah!

Where's my fire daddy?  Too soon Jessie too soon !