UK to Slovakia

Actually, winter arrived a couple of days ago after several days of rain.
We were watching the rain fall, wondering if it was going to stop when all of a sudden, it changed from water droplets to snow flakes.
We were greeted with another 4 inches of the stuff overnight, which meant I had to don hat and coat to de-ice the bus at the crack of dawn so Zoe could get to work - well it was the least I could as she was busy cooking something hot for breakfast.

I was actually quite thankful that the temperatures had dropped for the last few days because apparently, the general rule for these apartment blocks we are now living in is that the average temperature has to be below 10 C for three days before they turn on the heating. Never the less, it was still something of a shock to think that only a few weeks ago we had been enjoying temperatures in the low 20C’s.
I have come to enjoy and appreciate the ‘real seasons’ of Poland and Slovakia but it is still somewhat surreal how the can switch from one season to the next with only a few days warning, unlike the UK where they seem to blur together for months on end. My wife and I had only just been talking about the prospect of winter and here we are in the midst of it.

As I write this, the snow has stopped falling but there are still several inches to be seen in places and several nearby trees are heavily laden with the winter coats of snow.