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You know you've had enough when there are icicles at least three feet long on the house down the road and you can't be bothered to get all wrapped up and force your boots on to go take a photo. So instead here's a picture from Nasa that people were so eager to see they crashed the website. It shows all the country blanketed in snow.

And here's a link to a BBC radio compilation of how the snow spread south.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8443887.stm

Locally we got down to -10, but Scotland managed -21.7 which is just slightly above the South Pole temperatures. I knocked some of the icicles off the back window with the broom handle but I haven't done the front yet. If they get to three feet I may have to.

Sunderland's game tomorrow is off, no doubt thanks to the environs of the stadium. If I come across anything else pictorial from the area I will post. My heating has been on all day yesterday and today. Such bitter weather is unprecedented for such a long period. We have had snow on the ground since December 17th.

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I saw that pic on BBC Breakfast News this morning - it's beautiful, isn't it?! *loves*

I can't believe how cold it is staying. Here we are predicted freezing temps over weekend (so no chance of any thawing) and then more snow on Sunday!

God knows when kids will go back to school.

Ridsdale so desperate for our game to go ahead, he asked for volunteers to go and grit the carpark and surrounding streets of the stadium with his own personal grit. LOL. Apparently loads of people went down and cleared it!