'Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,'

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.

Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.