well this cold weather has been a bit of a shock for us here in the south of the country, we usually have it warmer and milder than most of you, we had about an inch and a half of snow on Thursday night, the previous week we had double that amount, we still had patches of snow left in ditches and on the road sides where the sun hadn't got to melt it, last night the temperature here was down to minus 12 degrees outside, it was the coldest night so far, had a phonecall from a friend who lives in Lands End and she said that they had no frost yesterday and on Thursday she had been out doing some gardening without her coat on, this weather is really weird, do hope that you all stay warm and try not to slip over on the ice, take care , Vanessa, Steve and Scott who likes to play in the snow x x