[West Ender]

At least you still get snow in Accy, at times. Down here, being only 1 lock on the Ship Canal above sea level, if it comes down it stays for about a day - if that. Usually it snows, thaws into dirty slush, freezes, then damages the mechanism of the swing bridges across the Canal so traffic into Warrington backs up for dozens of miles.

We used to get snow. I can remember my husband walking along the Bridgewater Canal, which was frozen solid, pulling our Nik, aged about 9, in a sledge and me having to get neighbours to help me push my car on to the drive because the snow had frozen solid in the tyre ruts I'd made backing out earlier.

Nik's sledge was passed on to Peter, my grandson, and I think he used it twice. He's now passed it on to Laura and she's never been able to use it at all. I'd quite like to have a good, old fashioned snowfall, that makes everywhere look beautiful, and have the kids sledging down the big slopes at Lymm Dam. There's a whole generation growing up, in this neck of the woods at least, that won't know the joy of sledging, skating/sliding on the Dam and building snowmen.