27.10.2005: and now, let�s cross live to our weather desk �

Hello there. Hope you�re all having a smashing time, wherever you are and whatever you're doing :-)

This is really no more than a glorified postscript to my beautiful day entry. I just want to show you something I noticed last night when I got home from school.

I'd taken some photos during the day, and I was loading them onto my hard drive. As I scrolled through the new 'album', one of the shots suddenly reminded me of another image I�d seen recently. I looked more closely and realised it was taken in almost exactly the same spot as the pic I'd uploaded a couple of weeks earlier to show you the autumn colours of Prazhskaya.

Here are the two photos I'm talking about. As you�ll notice, they were taken just sixteen days apart.

Can�t think of a better way than this to illustrate my point about how very quickly autumn gives way to winter here. It�s a pretty speedy transformation, wouldn�t you say?

Btw, the more recent shot was taken as I was heading to work on Wednesday, in the middle of my first snowstorm. It was a relatively light one, but it was so much fun! Yes, yes, I know � those of you who are currently living in snowy places or who have done in the past are going �just you wait, sonny boy; two months from now you�ll be cursing the stuff�. And you�re probably right. But I�m thinking that's all the more reason to relish the novelty of snow while it lasts. Agreed?

Okay, that�s all for the moment. More soon, though �