Horizontal blizzard most of the day. The children's school are very sad about probably being closed tomorrow too, "despite our best efforts". I would quite like to know exactly what efforts they made. Did they talk to the clouds particularly sternly? Is the wind in Restart for the rest of the week?

My own place set work for the children today. "Use all your senses to investigate the snow thoroughly. Send us some pictures of your snowmen!". I was able to report to the Head that tiny H next door had worked her way through that and was up to the extension tasks of stuffing snow down her mother's back and rescuing the cat from the horrifying weather by 9am.