According to the news report tonight it’s colder here than it is in Iceland and Scandinavia, we seem to have got all their snow, but it doesn’t feel too bad when you’re out walking in it. By the time we trudged through the snow from the town today we actually felt too hot, we were laden with more household necessities for Duncan’s new place.

There hasn’t been much snow today and we’re hoping that we’ll be able to drive through to Dundee tomorrow with more stuff and maybe order ‘white goods’ – the most boring things, to my mind anyway.

However, the temperature here is set to plummet to -6 degrees Celsius which I believe is 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit. So the roads are just going to ice up completely and it might be too dodgy to venture out in the car.

The schools are still closed and I’m sure they won’t be open tomorrow, they’ve only ever been closed for two days in a row before but we have had it a lot colder, in the past we’ve suffered -18 degrees Celsius and the fact that there isn’t much wind at the moment is good but on the other hand I suppose that’s why we’ve got this weather front stuck over us and going nowhere.

I’m glad that we aren’t any further north though because it’s going to be -27 degrees Celsius tonight, which is -16.6 degrees Fahrenheit. I’m sure a lot of people have to cope with weather a lot worse than this but we just aren’t used to snow which stays around for a while. When I was a wee girl we didn’t have snow for years and years, which I was quite happy about because on the rare occasion when it did snow – it turned to slush in about half an hour.

This is the fourth bad winter that we’ve had in a row so it looks like we’re going to have to get used to it in the future.