And we shall have snow. But not enough to stick – ever.

I remember when I was a child and it snowed, it snowed properly. A good, deep covering of snow. Everyone would go up to the big field in the village and go sledging down the hill there (hoping the cows weren’t there). And you’d build a snowman that would last for a couple of weeks after the rest of the snow had gone, slowly getting more and more doleful as he slowly melted away.

Now what little snow we have falls, but it disappears as soon as it hits the ground. So there’s no more fun to be had sledging or building snowmen. Is this global warming?

And from the research department for stating the obvious comes these stories -

 Women are choosier than men

Birds get startled by dogs

And people get paid to do research like this??!

On Friday I had the great pleasure of being at a book signing and talk with one of my favourite authors – Jasper Fforde.

If you’ve not read any of his books (and I highly recommend that you do), there’s two series which he writes – the Nursery Crime Division and the Thursday Next series. Friday’s event was to promote the latest Thursday Next novel First Among Sequels.

It was a great evening – Jasper Fforde is as funny in real life as his writing is in his books – full of talking and questions (I even asked one myself – aren’t I brave?!). It was great to learn about the way he writes, his love of puns and the slightly scary way in which things he has written seem to be coming reality …