Other highlights this week (apart from the clear blue skies and snow-capped mountain views) have been a couple of Fieldfares swooping over the car on the Kilmacolm-Whinhill road (Tuesday afternoon), a summer-plumaged Black Guillemot and plenty of part-hooded Black-headed Gulls on the sea off Greenock promenade, and almost-emerging daffodils in the verges at Houston. Oh yes, and the snow did come, although mostly to the northern half of the country.