Ah well - how about posting on the special days of the year, every half year or so ^^ - that's how I do it ^^.

Thanks for worrying about me! Bavaria usually has quite a bit of snow in the winter - so in general people are geared up for it, but we rarely have had so much snow from the beginning of December - it's usually late January and February. So people are starting to worry whether all the road salt will give out and we have more accidents because of that.

Now the north of Germany has it much tougher (as did the UK) because they very, very rarely have this much snow at all, so aren't prepared.

I encourage you to savour your reading time, it usually comes to an end soon enough so it's good to squeeze the extra-juice to the last drop ^o^