Snowed recently.

Just before we had to fly over to Scotland, it snowed for about three days and this is the result of just one day. While we were concerned about this delaying our flights it was only a few hours before the airports were operating as normal. When we did leave it was raining so there were no snow related transport difficulties despite the fact that we are in the middle of a council workers strike in Ulm.

We landed in Edinburgh, where it was characteristically bone-chilingly cold and soul-destroying. However it was lovely and warm in my daughter's appartment. On Sunday my daughter seemed be doing a great deal of phoning (she's a travel agent and they work on a Sunday in Scotland). "It's snowing," she told me and I was just about to say "call that snow?" when I saw someone go past the window on skis. A fairly normal site in the South German winter, but rather unusual, to say the least for Scotland. I transpired that for the first time in about 22 years, 20 inches of snow fell overnight and drifted to 2 or 3 metres deep in places.

So the country came to almost a complete standstill, which it normally does after a lot less snow- say about three inches.



Stirling the morning after it snowed properly for the first time in 22 years.

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