The downtown area is a dynamic type of region. It's not even the same as it was a year ago.

Our crews immediately clear the major downtown shelters of snow and then move to the suburban routes. However, during the following day, or even that same day, the snowplows operated by the city, county and state invariably plow the shelters and stops full of snow. This cycle repeats itself endlessly, throughout the entire city.

I'm not trying to criticize the plow drivers because I know their job is difficult. And I don't drive a snowplow. But it seems to me that they could slow down their speed or straighten their plows in front of the shelters, so it doesn't throw snow over the curb and into them.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.