Well, it began snowing early yesterday evening and though it kept stopping and starting overnight - see picture currently to the right - there was at least a 2-3 of inches on the ground by morning and today's weather seems to be fluctuating between the sun coming out and the cold stuff coming down. This isn't Iowa -standard snowfall by any means, but it's the first significant snowfall of the year and naturally that means some major UK cities have come to a grinding halt. (London seeks a snow-flake and has major palpitations, oop north we're a hardier bunch and it takes at least a sever frost to get us fuming!)

Horsforth/Leeds roads seem relatively okay, but as the forecast says the Russian-exported cold front could quickly get worse anytime over the next 36hours and drop the biggest snowload in about five years here and the fact I CAN work from home, it seems sensible to stay here for the moment - so it's articles on my laptop and the beginning of a major restructuring of the room around it (look out, ebay, you may be about to be inundated!)

Didn't win the lottery and I'm apparently not allowed to enter the Univeral Studios Super Bowl Giveaway Sweepstakes - so plans to make my bank account smile have to go on hold. Not so much a winter of typical discontent as a February of the usual fretting...