I recall that last May, the weather was hot and sunny a lot of the time; it seemed like summer, although it’s really only late spring.  Then it chucked it down in the period we in Britain traditionally associate with summer.

This year, we’ve had our April showers and now we’re into May and the sun is blazing away up there in the sky, seeming like summer again.  Presumably that’s because there’s less ozone to protect us from the rays now.  Hmm, no-one ever goes on about the hole in the ozone layer anymore.  It’s all greenhouse gases this and carbon footprint that.  I still say we should plug the cows into the gas mains…

Anyway, from the evidence of two consecutive years, I hypothesise that summer has moved to May.  I also suggest that winter has moved as well, given that 20–30 years ago, we got snow in December, but now we get it in January, if any; spring must be reduced to March and April.  If we get all that rain again that we had last year, then I propose we have a new rainy season in June to August, followed by autumn.

I’m dreaming of a white Easter…

Just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? Still, that’s what we woke up to this morning. Snow, on Easter Sunday. I know Easter’s early this year, but it’s still not supposed to snow at Easter. It’s supposed to snow at Christmas, but it didn’t.

So, I spent Easter morning having a snowball fight, which I lost on hits because my throwing is dreadful, but won on stamina (because I had a sneaky method of keeping my hands warm and dry and my opponent, the Hubster, had bare hands) and building a snowman.

As it has been all week. The rest of the country has apparently been covered in snow, but here, it’s been glorious sunshine, bracing temperatures and the odd flurry of snow.

I’d like to go outside and enjoy it, maybe sit in the Green Dragon’s beer garden by the river - wrapped up warm of course, as it’ll be cold just sitting there, but I have work to do.

It’s started snowing only minutes after I said it had stopped!

It’s stopped snowing.

It’s still sunny though and it’s windy.  It’s been windy all day, I think.

It’s snowing!

It’s also very sunny.

Went out with Flatmate-Colleen and played in the snow (such as it was)! We made a little snowman

Hmm, Firefox says the picture file contains errors. Something happens to it on upload (yes, I’m using binary transfer) because if I open the local file in Firefox, it’s fine. What’s going on?! *whinge*