Now what's going on. Snow here last night, unheard of. Winter is two months early. It is so rare here that when my son was three years old I got him a sledge, he never got to use it until he was eleven, then only for a couple of hours. Gritters out on the roads, it used to be a bloke with a wheelbarrow full doing a slope up on a high hill. We might as well get joined up to the north island if we have got to share your rotten weather. I did not go out yesterday as it was colder than a summers day in Scotland.