Day 11.364: Winter weather

In some years, a two week trip to the UK in December would have been rewarded by a return to a foot or more of snow, but so far, winter - after scaring us with an early start - has been fairly kind.

It did snow overnight for me to wake up to on my birthday but then rained for the rest of the day and all night as the temperature hovered around freezing. That means that it was still snowy but not in a very appealing way and rather slippery underfoot this morning. Then, as I was leaving the house, the rain changed back to big snowflakes and made it all quite pretty again: