It started off yesterday morning with a thunder storm and very heavy rain, turned to sleet and finally to heavy snowfall which eventually started to settle. The mountains looked really beautiful, capped in white. I realised when looking up just how high the peaks are above the village.

When I awoke this morning the view out of my bedroom window was breath taking.

I love snow, being trapped in the house for days on end, brings back memories of being unable to go to junior school because the snow was too deep and the school closed because the old fashioned boiler could not cope. I loved playing out in the snow, rain, hail and sleet – thunder storms were a delight, until one day I was coming home from youth club – running as fast as I could through what can only be described as blue lightning running along the ground. Mum and Dad watched in horror from their bedroom window, not a thing they could do to help. When I arrived home my hair was full of electricity, just stood up on end – and as it was nearly waist length, that was quite a sight.

I often wonder what effects lightning has on the human body and whether the headaches that I started to experience after that day were directly attributable to the storm, which continued all night and into the next day.