Snow

What is it about our fascination with snow?

Maybe it's because we rarely see it here, we become child like with wonder and imagination.

On any other day my waking our girls early would have resulted in a few choice words. This morning, however, they both looked confused enough not to shout at me when I said 'look out the window girls'.

In a short time, they were making snow angels and having fun snowballing each other. Marley dog hadn't seen much snow before and was understandably cautious.

The snow had caught us by surprise and meant we needed to be creative in our entertainment plans, and yet old habits die hard and Sunday papers were duly collected along with an array of tasty Christmas treats.

Like snow, life occasionally throws us a few extraordinary curve balls, which we need to try to deal with...