@AbidingontheVine - Yeah – snow is kind of normal, but not heavy snow.  Although in the last 3 years when we have had snow it has been very bad with airports closing etc. The 2010 snows were really bad because snow fell and then the temperatures dropped so much that it turned to ice and then snow fell on top of the ice and…well yeah, you can just imagine.  The country never had enough grit to clean the roads and no-one could come down our road without getting stuck.  So you can imagine how difficult it was to try and walk on the snow that was now covered in ice.  Many things that were organised at the time had to be cancelled, it was just too dangerous.  But, no snow at the moment – who knows if the weather will suddenly change.  We have been known to have some snow in March!