Royal Snow Day

It's snowed on and off since about 7.30 am this morning, although most is gone as it heated upmonce darkness came. (I'm putting in extra returns to see if this solves the problem of no visible paragraph spaces whenthe blog is posted.) This will be one of the six to eight snow days we will probably have this year. As I havevalready said, the winter seems to have come a bit later this year than previous years. I can't remember the date of the first snow day in 2011 but in 2010 it was the last weekend of May (so winter is not as delayed as it seemed). It's Royal because there has been much of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee on television. We watched various programmes on Saturday and Sunday afternoon on television, and tonight my mother has been watching the service from St paul's in London on television (I was watching a home repair horror programme from Manchester). We have fortunately not had the high winds that Sydney has had late this afternoon (hence there is still television to watch) although the falling snow did interfere with thevsatellite signal late this afternoon, as usual, and both televisions had to be restarted. Power was obviously off during the night as I had to reset the clock on the stove this morning. By this afternoon there was a light covering of snow, presumably now gone. And of course it is Grace Agnew's birthday.