Ha! Alas, only a couple of days of rather pathetic wet snow for the last couple of years, after years and years of 'decent' winters. Even a frost is a rarity nowadays. My SO is from the Black Country and would share your views. Plays havoc with my Rayburn too, producing nasty down drafts due to surrounding hills.
A useful couple of hours today spent servicing the station; new batteries, WD40 the wind speed and wind direction sensors, and dismantling the rain gauge to remove the earwig nest which had incapacitated it. Ready for the winter, if we get one.
Mild today - overcast, 14.6C, 3.1mph NW'ly, 1021mb. The rain gauge only shows 26mm because I've poured that amount of water through it to check it works. Otherwise - dry :-)