When I woke up to an icy white blanket in my garden this morning, my first thought was for all those Liberal Democrat campaigners who are out and about in the freezing cold risking life and limb to talk to voters and get our message across.

I will never be one of them. I am a total wuss where snow and ice are concerned.  Or, to be more accurate, a chionophobic. Ever since a fall on ice meant that I wasn’t able to walk for five months, I don’t do snow or ice if I can possibly avoid it.

My admiration for those who do go out in the horrible white stuff knows no bounds. I had presumed if we had snow in the central belt, that the North East would be under feet of the stuff, but both West Aberdeenshire and Gordon reported bak that they were enjoying beautiful weather. However, Christine had posted a photograph of some lethal looking local pavements last Saturday:

South of the border, we find our own Joe Otten  out with a team in Sheffield. They looked very happy in their work:

Here’s Clive Jones, the candidate for Wokingham out happily delivering Focus in the snow:

Richard Marbrow, parliamentary candidate for Oldham East and Saddleworth, and his team even got to proper frolicking in the snow, too. They also got a fantastic reception on the doorsteps in Crompton Ward in Oldham by day

And by night:

Even after all that, they still had the energy for, wait for it, snow angels. Richard told the story on Facebook and gave me permission to share it:

Final session of canvassing today was in Crompton. Went out with a team of 5 people and halfway round we found a big patch of blank snow. Snow angels were suggested and as we were enthusiastically waving our arms and legs around, who should walk around the corner but local Labour MP Debbie Abrahams and her team of one other person canvassing the occasional door.

I have never seen an opponents face fall quite so fast but I honestly don’t know whether it was because we outnumbered her, whether she was getting the same number of Lib Dems on the doorstep as we were, or whether she was upset because she was not having as much fun as we were.

She would have been welcome to join in but maybe snow angels are not her thing. And as she doesn’t live in the constituency she does have a longer drive home than me!

But my absolute hero of today is Grace Goodlad. Yesterday, she was sipping cocktails in 32 degree Egyptian heat. Today, well, not so much. I’m sure not even Chris White’s company can have compensated:

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It’s all impressive stuff. My respect to all those hardy campaigners who have been out there spreading the word and I hope they are all at home enjoying hot chocolate with a generous slug of brandy.. Just think how much nicer April showers are going to feel compared to this.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings