Snow Day

As soon as the snow arrives the news reporters head up to the highest hills to stand in the deepest part of the wind driven snow in a field to report how dangerous it is on the roads and only to go out if it is absolutely essential.  And everyone gives in.  Even the gritters and snow ploughs took their advice yesterday but after all, there was a good 4 inches of snow.

It drives me fuckin bonkers.  It’s the 50^th anniversary of Winston Churchills funeral today (ironically the country reportedly came to a standstill!) and I very much doubt that he would have had this modern day attitude to snow.  “Get the fuckin gritters out and get on with it”, he would have said.

And the nursery frustrates me too.  For all the non-paying customers, people with kids over 3, (of which the school will get state funding no matter what!) the school gets closed at the very smell of snow.  If they were to close the nursery due to bad weather for the payers then they would not be able to charge for the service, so they ensure that the premises are open for the first hour and then call the parents and ask them to collect their children due to H&S reasons.

All that aside I got to have a snow day yesterday with Piggy.  We built Thomas the Tank Engine tracks in the morning, went for a walk in the snow and we had a nap together on the sofa in front of the fire in the afternoon.  Lovely stuff!