How to Survive Winter

When did you get your first frost this year? For many parts of Ireland (although, I think, not Dublin city), it was last night. Temperatures had dropped to 3°C last night around 9pm, and even the dodgy greenhouse thermometer on our kitchen window was reading 4°C at some minutes to 7am this morning. There are predictions of colder weather through the week, and some parts of the UK may see sleet or even snow - indeed, there are currently reports coming in of snowfall in Shropshire and the West Midlands. We almost certainly won’t see any near the East Coast of Ireland, even though it’s coming in on Northerly winds; the Northern and Western areas of the country will absorb any that appears.

But it’s very nice to see actual frost!