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To anyone in the U.K, these will be familiar scenes at the moment. Well, actually, in Liverpool we haven't had much snow to speak of, compared to the rest of the country, but the pictures below show the sort of weather we've been having.

There's an ethereal beauty to frosty scenes - which is something I'd never associate with Liverpool usually!

The daily grind, regardless of whether I'm in work or not, of de-icing the cars goes on. But where, last week, we all looked at each other with exclamations of -8 degrees or whatever, now there's a fairly relaxed and nonchalant attitude to this arctic chill, courtesy of our Russian friends if you believe the weather forecasters.

Mind, I came out of the house just before and nearly went arse over tit on the icy pavement. Remembering a caller on local radio who said that there's laws in Germany for householders to clear snow and de-ice their immediate vicinity. I thought how sensible! So I went up to a local garden centre and bought a big bag of grit - £6.99! Market forces at work!

Where we live it's particularly devoid of any direct sunlight, at the front of house anyway, so the slippery conditions still prevail whilst the weak heat from the sun slowly melts ice elsewhere. I threw down a couple of shovel fulls of grit on our path and the pavement outside - the responsible, caring person that I am. And it's worked a treat.

But for how long is another matter.