heleninwales | And now it's all gone

This is why the UK falls apart when it snows. Our snow lasted for three days and by this morning it had all gone. It hasn't snowed properly for some years, so keeping all the equipment to deal with snow or doing things like changing to winter tyres makes no sense here. It's actually more cost effective to struggle for a new days and wait for the thaw.

There is more snow forecast for some parts of the UK, but with luck we'll just get rain, courtesy of Storm Goretti which is due to sweep up the middle of Britain, no doubt causing more chaos.

Anyway, it's nice to start getting back into a normal routine. There were six of us in the cafe for the Welsh chat this morning and we swapped news about what we'd done over Christmas (not very much!). One group member we hadn't seen for quite a while has now returned from her trip to Australia and New Zealand, so it was nice to see her again.