That will have been the winter that was

Above: Scene at W-wa Zachodnia ("The Clapham Junction of the East") this morning.

Above: Scene on top of the school across the road from my office today. Snow on top of roofs can be deadly.

The forecast for the end of the week is temperatures hovering around zero; the thaw is on its way. With a bit of luck, it will start in earnest the moment I'm on that London flight next Wednesday morning, and the process will have finished once I'm back in Warsaw late on Tuesday 2nd March. I shall come home to daffodils, returning migratory birds, sunshine and spring.