It's snowing again!

Most of us in the UK have a love-hate thing with snow. It's more clear-cut than ice which not many like at all as it is so dangerous, especially if it carries on for too long. But snow? How long does it have to go on for before we finally start hating it?

I'm not talking about children of course. They love playing in the white stuff, creating snowmen and having snowball fights. But now with the lure of computers, video games and mobile phones, do even children play outside much in the winter? I don't see any on looking out of my window.

Snow is pretty and white and lovely to walk on if not too deep and if you have good suitable footwear. The worst things about it is that it readily turns into treacherous ice, and that at the moment it keeps coming back and back, causing traffic chaos and accidents to motorist and pedestrian alike.

The problem is this snowy icy weather would have to be even more frequent to encourage the powers-that-be to clear more of the roads. The dangers to the elderly and balance-challenged of sheets of slippery ice are too awful to contemplate.

So, on that note I hope and pray that the end to the snowy season is approaching fast! Here's to a gloriously warm spring and summer 2010.