South Africans Barbara and Gary, who live in Walthamstow, east London, are among many backpackers in the UK who greeted the first "real" snowfall of their lives this week.

Spike Reid rode into a snowy Gosforth golf course, near Newcastle, but says he avoided the greens to avoid damaging the grass.

London's roofs got their first taste of snow on Monday afternoon. Paulo Coelho's back garden in Bow shows the snow had not melted by Tuesday morning.

Durham University student Adam Talbot's view from the window at his college.

The bridle path near the home of Sharon Geraghty-Bellingham in West Marden, north of Chichester, was covered in snow on Tuesday morning.

Many children in the north enjoyed snowball fights before any snow had hit the south. Mike Walker sent this picture of the fun in Durham on Monday.

The South of England had its fair share of snow overnight on Monday, as Bala's garden in Croydon, Surrey, shows.

Simon Noddings: "My Son, Alex (5) at home in Seaton Carew, a village on North East coast. We don't generally get much snow so when we do it's cause for serious snowman building!"

Debbie Maizels spotted fox tracks in the three inches of snow lying on the ground in Surrey on Tuesday.