It's very rare that we ever get a white Christmas in the south of England, but this year we did get a white Easter.
This was the view from the french windows on Easter Sunday morning. Quite a winter wonderland. It didn't last though, and by the afternoon it had all melted away.
I know Easter was especially early this year, the earliest since 1913 apparently, but three years ago Easter was also at the end of March and the weather then was glorious. I remember it well as P and I had just moved into this house and we spent quite a bit of the Good Friday in Ikea buying shelving and other such exciting things. The weather then was so warm that I was already wearing my summer sandals with bare feet.
On the other hand, my sister's birthday is at the beginning of April and although some years the temperature can be in the high 60s, the number of times it has snowed on that day are just too numerous to remember.
I can remember in mid-April 2000 there was quite thick snow lying on the ground in Bristol. We had lost all television pictures and were out in the road trying to see if our TV aerial had fallen off the roof, trudging about in thick snow whilst it was still broad daylight at 8.00 pm - very odd!! That is the latest in the year I ever remember snow falling although I had a friend at college who swore she could remember it snowing on the beach in Scunthorpe in early June 1976 (just before the famous heatwave started). What's the lastest you can remember snowfall?
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