"Dave Ludlow" wrote :

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At 5pm today, there will have been 7 full days of complete snow cover
here - including on the beach at Lee-on-the-Solent which still had 5cm
of complete snow cover right down tio the high water line, at 9pm last
night.

Remarkable times, in this part of the World. The kids absolutely love
this! Me too!

Trouble is, Dave, you'll have tremendous withdrawal symptoms
for the next 20 years, till the next one. Unless you move ....

Philip