Frosty morning

Here in England, weather is a perennial topic of discussion. But it's become a daily subject matter not just on the radio and TV but everyone. The DJ will lament about how cold it is; there'll be news about airport/school closures, train disruptions and travel chaos. People have died because of the cold and snow. One man lost his life while clearing snow outside his house. Very sad indeed. Drivers had been stuck in their cars, so on and so forth. Everyone you bump into during the school run, it'll be 'Hi! It's so cold!' or 'It's freezing! Bye!'.

We are more fortunate at where we are. Scotland and north England are boring the brunt of the adverse weather. Temperature dropped as low as -18C. I can't imagine that. The lowest we've had was around -5C and that was pretty hard going. I have been bundling up like a rice dumpling I must be waddling around like a penguin. But it's not all doom and gloom. With the snow, frost and wintry weather, the outdoors' looking very pretty and magical. We had fog the whole of yesterday. Combine that with the white and glistening branches on trees, it's looking alot like scenes out of Narnia. The trees look as though they had been sprinkled with dustings of icing sugar and glitter. Very enchanting indeed.



So if you don't think about the heating cost incurred, water bills (you will want to stay under the hot shower for as long as possible), scrapping your windscreen every morning, going through a box of teabags everyday (ok, that I exaggerate but you know what I mean), skin becoming as dry as the witch from Snow White, winter is actually not that bad afterall.