It's dreadful, isn't it? And as you say, it came so quickly out of nowhere - in Wales, and the Highlands, and your island, people simply didn't have time to react. We had nothing but a dusting, and that's all gone (though it's bitterly, bitterly cold) - it's just mindboggling to look at those pictures of 15-foot drifts and think What?!? Where did that come from?"