A tale of two cities

While Sydney scorches and Victoria (as well as other parts of Oz) tragically burns, the UK has been in the grip of the coldest weather for 18 years. It seems as if the entire mainland island has been blanketed by heavy, chaos-causing snow, closing schools, cancelling the London buses and delighting newly-resurrected snowmen everywhere.

Belfast got comparatively little (alas!) but we experienced enough of it on 2 days to play in it while the sun shone down. These photos are deceptive as it gives the impression that Belfast had 48 hours of blue sky. The truth be told, it was more like 48 seconds-the remainder of the time over the 'snowy' days it was grey, freezing, icy, sleety, mushy...

...but it's still such a novelty to us, that we LOVED it! Can you tell?