Late January/early February brought a week of wintry weather across the country - but whilst some areas escaped completely, others had sudden falls of several inches.
Northwold had snow on 31st Jan, resulting in the school being closed, and the main A134 passable with care.
A gas cylinder lorry went off the road near the lay-by at the top of the hill, and vehicles struggled to negotiate Whittington hill (in the upwards direction - progress was faster than expected going down!)
In all there was about of week of on/off snow fall and it would be fair to say that it was received with mixed emotions - depending on whether (a) school was closed, (b) you had to get to work, (c) you had to play snowballs and