The 'S' word

As you probably noticed from the previous post, there isn't much snow around any more. In fact we have had, by Hokkaido standards, a very mild winter of it. My Met Eireann approved means of measuring the severity of our winter is to add up the number of times I have had to climb on the shed roof and shovel off the snow. And this year's total? Approximately zero. Which has been great as let's face it folks, I'm not getting any younger and Cian is taking his own sweet time about growing older. The weekend saw the temperatures come tantalizing close to double figures and some of the more irresponsible amongst us are already bandying the S****g word around.
Hush now. Have we so quickly forgotten what happened last year - remind yourselves here.
Still, the signs are there.