I suffered hugely with a cold over the last week, and this weekend I’ve been left with an unpleasant cough resulting in a large intake of Lemsip and cough medicine (and a little drink by the name of “Hot Toddy”). Much of the beginning of the week was spent in bed, with the sofa being [...]

The snow has gone, and floods are replacing the freeze. But while it’s still fresh in your mind, here are a few more snow pics from Belfast:

All this talk of ‘black ice’ and ‘freezing snow’ has been a bit nuts lately. Coldest temperatures since the ice age and landscapes that look like they belong in the Antarctic. It’s been cold and disruptive; pipes bursting, the salt supply of whole countries gone and old people dying. with up to 6in of snow [...]

The snow that fell in Belfast yesterday. It doesn’t look like it’s getting warmer any time soon either.

After hearing of all this snow in England, Scotland and Wales as well as South Ireland, I, and I assume, others had gotten pretty impatient for the snow to get to us in Belfast. Finally it did yesterday. When I awoke, before 7am, the a few inches had accumulated on the ground outside, and it [...]