Very cold night, about an inch of snow. Roads covered in ice. Decided to walk to work. Good idea - on way saw cars sliding and skidding and getting stuck on hills. Everyone had a tale to tell when they eventually arrived.

Found myself very tired when I got home, what with the cold and clomping round all day in big boots.

My fave R5 presenter, Peter Allen, was one of the people who got stuck on the way home last night. He was phoning reports in to the station. When Drive started again at 4pm, he was doing it from Cambridgeshire, where he still was.

Very cold. Heavy snow in the morning and at lunchtime and in the evening, but tending to melt each time. Did however manage to recreate the childish wonder of standing by the window and looking up, seeing the white sky with the snowflakes coming down dark against it. Like bees, I thought that snowy morning in 1975.

Much colder - more squally rain and a strong, very cold North wind. Cleared later.

Hurrying home from meeting at 9.30pm, Sirius and ?Jupiter very bright in the clear dry air. There's something about very cold, windy, dry nights that gets me excited - reminds me of the 'dawn of time'. I have such happy recollections of this period (1973 to 1975).

Cold and very windy, with squally showers at times.

Sort of damp and cold and bright. Saw a protest against war on Iraq by the war memorial. It's odd how I was in favour of the 1991 war (till they massacred all those people fleeing back to Baghdad), but have been dead against this one ever since it became apparent that Bush was going to use the World Trade Centre attacks as an excuse for it. Bastard.

Anyway, got soaked in freezing cold rain but did see a beautiful bright, low double rainbow behind the protestors.

Cool, bright, frosty.

Another wet day.

Windy, rainy weather, quite warm comparatively though.

Couldn't sleep at 4am, got up and read the Guide To The Names In The Lord Of The Rings. Very soothing - Tolkien's petulant prose combined with rain on the roof.

Dark, grey, invigoratingly windy weather.

Beautiful clear sunrise (blue, green, salmon-pink) and sunset (blue, lavender).

Perhaps a bit less cold today. Biting wind though. Rain fell and melted the snow.

Cold and utterly clear, without a cloud all day. Snow still there, with blue shadows. At sunset continuous shade from dark blue to rose pink, with all the yellows and yellow-oranges in between.

More snow overnight and this morning. Colder than yesterday if anything.

Woke up to find it very cold, and snow on the ground, perhaps ½".

Very cold in the morning with a hard frost (a good 4 minutes scraping the car).

Cold today, and bright in the morning.