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Hello, Chris Mason's going to be here in a minute, but if he was here now, he'd say,

isn't it chuffing freezing?

But it's really chuffing freezing in Braemar in Scotland where they've had

temperatures of minus 23 degrees C overnight, the coldest in more than 25 years.

And one of the people shivering through it in Bremer is Simon

Hello Simon. Hello there yes I'm speaking from a very very snowy but

quite glorious weather in Bre. We have had snow on and off continuously for the

last week or 10 days or something like that. The volume of snow has just

built up and up and up and up and we haven't seen anything like this for at least 15 years.

And then last night, the sky's cleared, there were thousands of stars above our heads, and then my goodness me the the temperature just plummeted it was very very

cold we took the dogs for a walk this morning and it was almost painful it was so cold and

in if any exposed hair very quickly got frosted and covered in lovely sort of sugar is frost but it was absolutely glorious but it is quite challenging.

Simon are you a part-time novelist as well because that was like a novelist's description of the scene?

Well they were so lucky to live here it's such a beautiful place where in the middle of the

kangorbs National Park.

As I say, it was close to a continental climate as you're going to get in in Great Britain.

It's a gorgeous place. We're surrounded by wonderful hills, forests, rivers.

Right, we've got the sound of one of the things that you were up to today.

What are you doing there?

Well, one of the money things that I'm involved with is we have a community hydroelectric scheme.

So we generate our own electricity.

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