For a while weather conditions continued to play havoc – veg box deliveries stalled, schools closed, appointments cancelled, wherever possible life continued; if a little compromised. ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ and in our case it was the ‘father’, who turned up for a meeting at our offices last week, with his delightful daughter Tilly who was revelling in another day off. She brought with her a delicious new, bumper tub of brightly coloured Plasticine…

Recent temperatures have been seen to plummet to record breaking depths. Twitter has often been at capacity with their floundering whale www.flickr.com reflecting the fact that most people have found themselves ‘grounded’ at home: savouring tail end bottles of ‘Southern Comfort’ from Christmas, sitting by the fire, reporting with glee, to the outside world, on their fireside cosiness, their ’flu, their snowmen, delighting in their inability to get to work and despairing at burst pipes, lack of milk and delayed trains.