So glad your family managed to get to you for Christmas, Tearinghair. I can just imagine the pleasure the boys took in the snow. Our little Portuguese cat, Marley, was not so enamoured of it, and spent the entire Christmas with his nose pressed up against our oil heating stove.
I'm really looking forward to setting the links, and Strix, you can panic now. Why shouldn't you, I am. In fact I'm quite worried - I always thought I was a simple soul. Not sure I can live up to being "a complex person".