A snowplough arrived in Dicksonfield this morning, about four days too late. The driver sat for a while, mobile phone pressed to his ear, no doubt reporting the absence of snow to his management. Had he bothered to drive around the back of some of the blocks or even just to the bottom of the entry road he'd have found something to plough but he put his phone back in his pocket and drove off.

No thanks to the ploughboy but normal traffic on top of snow clearing and grit spreading by some residents has brought our main drag into a passable without too much care condition.