Friday was our ninth day in the snow, although there at least did not seem to have been any more overnight.

By this stage it felt like Groundhog Day.

However, I knew I was lucky compared to some. One radio colleague was snowed in for days in his Aberdeenshire village and had to work from home.

Neighbours helped each other with food and drink supplies.

And TV colleagues have had to deal with horrendous conditions out and about when filming in deep snow, external to reach communities that have been cut off.

On the now daily trudge to work through the snow and ice, I came across a mum and daughter scraping their car clear of heavy snow.

Steph and four-year-old Ellie were going for the teamwork approach, Steph with an orange shovel to shift the worst of the snow, and Ellie using a small scraper.