To a large proportion of the Northern Hemisphere a fall of snow is hardly newsworthy. Currently our friends in Canada are living through their, what seems like, interminable white winter.

However snow in the UK is a big deal, partly because it is sticky and slippery and therefore difficult to drive on and partly because we’re just not used to it.

For this Easter Sunday we had 6cm of snow in Cambridgeshire starting at 6.30 am and causing a traffic hazard until 10 am when it rapidly thawed.

This gave me just enough time to capture this image of our back yard looking prettily covered in a blanket of white.