Chill... it is winter not the ice age

THERE'S a whole generation of us - maybe even two, actually - who will have been smiling at all the fuss and bother generated by last week’s cold snap.

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Because for those of us old enough to remember the bitter winters of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, that's all it was - a cold snap. Quite a lot of snow for Scotland - which used to be something you could rely on (like Scotland's previously-guaranteed ski slopes) and a smattering for the rest of us. Yawn. Nothing to see here.