Thaw

I am, by extension, better informed about recent snowfall across Britain than most TV weather presenters. Seriously, slap a bit of lippy on me, give me a green screen and a little button thingy to press, and I could give Carol Kirkwood a run for her money.

This is because there was a new entry in the charts of my daughter’s Prader-Willi Syndrome Next Level Obsessions this week, as SNOW rocketed up the bestseller list, passing BOOKS and - incredibly - FOOD, to take the coveted No 1 slot.

“Mum, how much snow is there where [insert different family member or friend’s name here] lives? Mum, we’ve got more snow than [insert random place name], haven’t we? Mum, my school is going to be closed isn’t it? Mum, is [insert random school name] going to be open? Mum, [insert random day] is going to be the most snowy, isn’t it?”

All of these questions (which continued for approximately four days) have needed to be answered. And have been responded to with daughter’s alarming new habit of essentially accusing me of #fakenews. So I’ve had to put the Google results, Met Office pages, online photos and videos from social media right under her nose, several times over, to convince her of the validity of my answers.

Today, things were back to normal. The temperature has gone up a few degrees, and the snow has pretty much melted. I was supposed to be doing my usual Sunday morning duties of helping corral eight and nine year olds at minis rugby, where for some reason I have ended up as an Assistant Coach, despite the fact that my boy tried rugby for four weeks, then decided he’d prefer to be home in the warm, so I go and he doesn’t.

But today’s session was cancelled, so I took my girl for a little walk down to the pub for a bit of mum and daughter time, a cup of coffee and a chat.

“We’re going out for lunch on the last day of term, Mum, so you need to see the menu, and I liked it when I had pasta arrabiata when we went on the Prader-Willi weekend, and McDonalds’ peri-peri wraps are quite healthy aren’t they, and can I have a melon for my fruit today.”

Yep. all back to normal.

Video is Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)