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If we're honest, when we look at the picture above, most of us can say we take our British weather for granted.

It rained almost all day and even snowed at one point and I know that it annoyed me. Judging by the tweets from different people it annoyed them too.

We complain about the weather all the time, but at least it's still possible to go home, get dry and use electricity. We don't get tornadoes that rip through the town and flatten it.

I'm always hearing about tornadoes that are tearing through southern U.S.A states, destroying their wooden houses and reducing villages to rubble.

Why don't they build their houses from something stronger? Re-enforce them? I know it's probably expensive, but at least they wouldn't have to re-build them so often.

These ‘tornado alley’ occupants, so traditional and patriotic with their timber roofs and walls..

We are pretty lucky to be living here, bland old England, with its occasional sunny day, but reliably rainy forecast.

So, I'm not directly related, but he was married to my first cousin once removed. Near enough to say a few words right?

For those of you who don't know, which is probably most people (unless you have a unhealthy obsession for researching past horse racing or read the Telegraph), Josh Gifford was a famous jockey/horse trainer.

He won 642 races over 14 years and trained 1,586 winning horses. Difficult to process unless you can imagine walking past lined-up winning horses for about 2 miles.

There was a film made about him training Aldaniti to win the 1981 Grand National (Champions, 1984) from near impossible circumstances, with a jockey (Bob Champion) who had only just recovered from chemotherapy. 

I've mentioned these impressive things, but sadly, the main reason I have looked into it is because he died two days ago. I've heard about him and knew what he did, but the only real reason I know is because my dad makes a big thing about me being related to all these people I've never heard of.

This is the canal at Lincoln, frozen over and covered in snow last night.

It's amazing that even though it comes every year, everyone is still perplexed by the sight of it. Uni students all crowd out of their nests to play in it. Some lads even took it as far as to carry a catapult around with them, I can only suppose just in case they forgot how to throw a snowball.

http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/article/1288283--woman-falls-through-ice-on-heart-lake