Well I think we have survived the worst winter storm in a while…only thing is where I live it was really that much of endurance – thank goodness!   The news was full of deep snow drifts, communities cut off and people trapped for hours in their vehicles on motorways.  All great and good for the news journalists but that wasn’t my experience of the beast from the east.  Instead of apocalypse we had some snow and it was bloody cold but that was it.   So for what it is worth here is my photographic record of when the beast visited:

 I just hope that is the end of things and we can get on with our small uneventful lives.  As I write this the birds are singing outside – a sure sign that spring is well on the way.