lol at Pakled. You missed out Middlesex. The simple answer is that the Saxons didn't manage to get a foothold in the northern parts of our country, well not back in historical times anyways. Great photo Fran. Down here in Surrey our snow disappeared almost as quick as it arrived.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."