Let it snow let it snow

[peanutpete]

god it does not seem that long ago we were showing pictures of the snow and now its come round again what happened to the summer?

[Robusto]

I have put together a music festival and workshop tomorrow. It has taken a lot of planning and rehearsal and has meant co-ordinating several musicians' diaries and now it looks as if it's going to be frozen off. A real pain.

[moidoid]

I have put together a music festival and workshop tomorrow. It has taken a lot of planning and rehearsal and has meant co-ordinating several musicians' diaries and now it looks as if it's going to be frozen off. A real pain.

I know. Much as I dislike work I'll have to cancel things that took an age to set up and will not be re-arranged until after Christmas. A right pain. It looks like the snow is up to six inches this AM.

[Robusto]

So I'm stuck at home writing shite on Facebook...

I'm a teacher having a day off because of this. The snow is bad but not impassable and I'm beginning to think we are losing our collective balls when things are cancelled so quickly. We've got more fight in us that this!

My wife works one mile away from me after a 14 mile journey. I've dug the car out and she's driven off and will pass my school en route as per. There's NO WAY she can drop patient consultations to stay at home. Hospitals never close.

I've made fine coffee and am going to put my feet up and enjoy a ripe one out of my humidor.

I should and will enjoy myself but we seem to be running out of spunk as a nation.

I feel about 85 years old today.

Where's that fucking fascist rant thread when you need it?

[Lascaux]

I agree mate, another school closed day for me... losing a lot of money and it just feels like everyones wimping out. The roads are fine around here, yet school stays closed. I want to teach god damn it these kids aren't gonna become x factor backing band guitarists on their own ya know!!!

[moidoid]

Not all schools are like that. Our local primary stays open usually - but it is really bad today and in the sticks. I have no problems driving in the snow, but without a 4x4 it would be daft trying to get out of the little valley we're in today. But we got them in every other day this week so far. I would expect a school in town to stay open because you can walk, surely?

[Deano]

Well it's about a foot here so I can understand the problems. Not sure what you guys got, but it's still snowing here.

[Robusto]

I agree mate, another school closed day for me... losing a lot of money and it just feels like everyones wimping out. The roads are fine around here, yet school stays closed. I want to teach god damn it these kids aren't gonna become x factor backing band guitarists on their own ya know!!!

I feel for you, buddy. I've had to cancel our peris today and I know how much they wil not be earning.

The kiddies will be one step backwards from that version of I'm Still Standing they've been lubing up with love for Wagner!

[Robusto]

Not all schools are like that. Our local primary stays open usually - but it is really bad today and in the sticks. I have no problems driving in the snow, but without a 4x4 it would be daft trying to get out of the little valley we're in today. But we got them in every other day this week so far. I would expect a school in town to stay open because you can walk, surely?

I believe you are hidden in the Weald, Sir.
Is it atrocious?...

[Robusto]

I've been out polishing up my narcisszzmmm in the snowdrifts with my labrador, Stetson and a fat tasty great smoke-bursting one.

I got two days off like this in Fabruary according to my photomontage.

I went walking with the dog and a decent one last night in the beautiful quiet and it nearly froze my hands off out there.

[nicwing]

There is hardly any snow here, a belt from North London to Leicester (I guess) appears to have been spared all but a light icing sugar dusting and yet on the first day one of my kids mates mum who had the biggest f.off Porche 4wd called off school.

I think people like that should be banned from owning gas guzzling monsters, what is the bloody point of having it if you wimp out at the first sign of snow?

I have an automatic front wheel drive car and I can get almost everywhere, I just drive carefully and with consideration for others. The arseholes driving at breakneck speeds at me tend to be in Range rovers with the attitude that they can drive at 70 in any conditions so b*gger you!

Message ends.

[Puff Scotty]

There is hardly any snow here, a belt from North London to Leicester (I guess) appears to have been spared all but a light icing sugar dusting and yet on the first day one of my kids mates mum who had the biggest f.off Porche 4wd called off school.

I think people like that should be banned from owning gas guzzling monsters, what is the bloody point of having it if you wimp out at the first sign of snow?

I have an automatic front wheel drive car and I can get almost everywhere, I just drive carefully and with consideration for others. The arseholes driving at breakneck speeds at me tend to be in Range rovers with the attitude that they can drive at 70 in any conditions so b*gger you!

Message ends.

Best I leave the gas guzzling monster Range Rover where it is then, first I wimp out at the first sign of snow, then I'm driving at 70 in any conditions... make yer mind up ya 2 wheeled driven whinger!
Puff (the b*ggered arsehole).

[bambini]

There is hardly any snow here, a belt from North London to Leicester (I guess) appears to have been spared all but a light icing sugar dusting and yet on the first day one of my kids mates mum who had the biggest f.off Porche 4wd called off school.

IMO, those vehicles are all mouth and no trouser. Now, a Land Rover, that would do the job, but who can see a North London Mum driving around in a battered old TD5?

Make winter tyres compulsory, I say. Then no one would have an excuse. My wife got into work yesterday (20 miles), while her colleague who lives a 10 min walk away and still drives in every day was "snowed in"

[Styler]

My wife got into work yesterday (20 miles), while her colleague who lives a 10 min walk away and still drives in every day was "snowed in"

Absolutely disgusting.

I have a perfectly normal FWD car and I live on a street that looks like it belongs in Alaska but I can still make the 10 mile journey into work.

People really do need to grow a pair. My wife is an intensive care staff nurse and she just has to get into work, there is no choice in the matter. So if hospitals can stay open I fail to see why schools can shut. I don't know if it's still the case but at the start of this week nearly every school in Edinburgh was shut. Disgusting.

[Puff Scotty]

Absolutely agree with styler, the final say on schools shutting is down to the headmaster, who is supposed to balance risk against education.
Guess what! The HM who has no training in risk assessment due to snow says "Oh Goody, a day off" & "if I shut the school the attendance level isn't affected"! so sod the education!
What chance do the teachers have with a prick like that in control!