So my parents live in Spain.  They've been out there for over 11 years now, in a beautiful village called Villanueva De La Concepcion which is inland from Malaga. My mum turned 60 in August last year and my husband and I decided to pretend we'd...

So I laughed mockingly as my husband packed an over night bag for work the next day.  "There's going to be 80cm of snow EMILY", "We're all going to die!".  I honestly believed that there would be nothing on the ground the next morning. At 2am,...