There's something about waking up to snow in England.

There was just an inch or so this morning before the main dump comes tonight 'oop 'ere in't North, but the radio at breakfast time was buzzing with the excitement of closed airports, trains cancelled and don't go out unless you really have to warnings.

Boris Johnson was loving the adversity, fending off journalists, who were wondering if he shouldn't have done something about preventing the chaos in London. He replied that it wasn't the wrong kind of snow this time, just that there was too much of it - thirty centimetres to be reckoned with.

'Oop 'ere in't North there has not been much but it's starting to snow again as darkness falls. My wife, Kate, has to get to Heathrow in't morning to catch a plane to Goa. No doubt she will be calling in two days time* from Heathrow asking me to come and pick her up.

*She did ring - from Oxford Services to say she had broken down - she got to Heathrow in the end...

Ski Jungle Blog - Snow in the UK February 2009