Not to be outdone...

UK Snow on Jan 5th
Originally uploaded by UlloaSullivan.

... it seems, following the photos and videos of our recent Snow Day trip, I started to receive IM messages and photos in my email yesterday showing me that they have snow in the UK, too. And, more importantly, that they don't have to drive an hour up into the mountains to go and see it.

This is a rather majestic photo of the tree in Mum and Dad's back garden on Tuesday evening just as the snow-fest had begun.

Below is a photo of the scene in Reading, Berkshire the following morning.

In order to get a sense of what this much snow means to daily life in the UK I did a quick search of the results on Google News for 'Snow UK' and saw the following headlines:

UK crippled by Snow, Freezing temperatures - CNN
UK snow freezes transport links and thousands of schools - The Guardian
Arctic blast brings parts of UK to icy standstill - Reuters

and, my personal favourite,

Snow in the UK, A Good Time for Sex (go find the link yourself)

Darn it! Now I really wish M and I were there! ;)