(Boolbar) They all do. I'm no fan of radiators.

Striking off at a tangent. My daughter would like to know why household radiators are so called, when they should really be "convectors" ?

Mrs INJ was woken up by our local earthquake (a whole 2.9 on the Richter scale). I slept through it.

My god, the weight of snow blanketing the country must now be so thick it's beginning to distort the Earth's very crust!

Appreciably less effort has gone into clearing roads of snow in the midlands compared to previous years. I blame the bankers.

Three things I am grateful for, in the snowy conditions.

1. I only live 5 miles from work, along gritted roads
2. West Berks council are well-funded and efficient
3. 5 or 6 young men that were pushing every car out of the village I work in on Friday morning, when the MD decreed we could go home. They were cheerfully jogging down the hill, pushing a car up it until they got some grip near the top, waving them on their way, and jogging back down again. I'd buy them a pint if I knew who they were.

(Phil) Not having to go to work is also very useful. But band rehearsal was cancelled tonite which I thought was feeble.
Jakutsk update - the fog has just cleared for the first time this year and they have a balmy -32° with light snow.