The Claridge's annual southerly migration!

It's that time of year again, yep the grandparents are on their way, and just in time too! Every year, whenever they decide to come, late november or january, they are getting a reputation for missing all the REALLY bad weather, it always seems to snow hard back in South Wales, while they are here. This time it's been a bit of a close call, my home region was under a red severe weather warning and got 30cm of snow today (check out the news reports), on the day the folks had originally planned to head up to Heathrow! Fortunately they had advanced warning and made it halfway to Heathrow yesterday, and with luck their flight to LA should be fine for tomorrow....however, there is more whitestuff forecast for sunday!

Fortunately, from here it all seems like a rather hazy dream! It get's a bit chilly in july granted, but I can't quite remember what it must be like to live somewhere where the temperature remains below freezing during the day. Before I get too smug I must add that we are also enjoying a yellow alert for heavy rains, forecast to last until tuesday, so the folks may have to battle the elements once more to get to us from Tahiti!